Lee Krasner, The Seasons, 1957 Completely non objective, and therefore not culturally specific; not depicting a cultural ‘currency’, so anyone can look at this and establish some sort of connection with it. Everyone can see the same thing.  Jackson Pollock’s wife; focused for most of her life on his career, and not hers.

Lee Krasner, The Seasons, 1957

  • Completely non objective, and therefore not culturally specific; not depicting a cultural ‘currency’, so anyone can look at this and establish some sort of connection with it. Everyone can see the same thing. 
  • Jackson Pollock’s wife; focused for most of her life on his career, and not hers.
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  1. artwhat posted this

artwhat.

during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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