Krasner was a pioneer of abstract expressionism, but it took the death of her husband Jackson Pollock for her to start painting like one.
In the years immediately following the end of the Second World War, a radical new style shifted the centre of the art world from Paris to New York. This transatlantic transposition was driven by immigrant artists. Abstract expressionism, which can claim to be the first truly American style, was largely the product of exiled Europeans: Willem de Kooning was a Dutchman who had crossed the Atlantic in 1926 as a stowaway; Mark Rothko was born …read more
Source: New Statesman
