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The Nature of Lee Krasner

Her work has always seemed to me
pastoral and bucolic
but with highly personal inflections, as
if Chekhovian behavior...often
entranced by the summer stillness, had
been intensified by studying
plant and insect life, as a diversion,
in the imaginative way of Farbre.

BRYAN ROBERTSON
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Self Portrait [[?]] (Lee Krasner)


I [[?]] anything that isn't inside my direct range of experience.

The question is: what is the nature of the experience? And directly linked with this is the definition of its range and [[?]]. There is no doubt that Lee Krasner, from the earliest beginnings of her work as a student, has been totally immersed in a search for pictorial imagery that might reflect her relationship with nature. It is equally clear that the [[?]] of this imagery has achieved, through increasingly subtle and varied use of color, texture,