Giles Hohnen

2019 #10

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2019#7

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NYTimes.com: Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight

From The New York Times:

Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight

A major touring retrospective of the American painter brings her out of the shadow of her famous husband.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/arts/lee-krasner-barbican-schirn-kunsthalle.html

2019#5

oil on composite, H 81.5 X W 185.5 triptych

2019#4

 

 

H 168 x W 137 oil on linen

2019#3

H62xW62, oil on birch panel

2019#2

H144xW144, oil on linen

2019#1 (Savanna)

oil on linen H144xW117

From newyorker.com: The Inflation of Abstraction, Peter Schjeldahl

"Here’s a suggestion: reframe the undoubted greatness of Abstract Expressionism in terms of the risks of abject failure that its proponents ran. (I think of the oft-told anecdote of Pollock asking Lee Krasner, of a drip work that he had just made, “Is this a painting?”) The drama is not inherent in the forms that they created, which may or may not prove lastingly influential. All artists must rise or fall by braving perils and finding opportunities specific to themselves and to their own times, the canon be damned". 

 

 

The Met’s show of Abstract Expressionism wants to remake the canon.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/the-inflation-of-abstraction

2018#16 (Savanna)

oil on composite panel, H161 X W121

2018#17 (Savanna)

Oil on composite panel H 121 X W101 

2018#15 (Savanna)

Oil on composite board H141 X W121

2018#13 (Savanna)

2018#8 (Savanna)

Oil on composite board, H121 x W101

2018#7 (Savanna)

2018#6 (Savanna)

2018#5 (Savanna)