September Instagram Challenge

I am once again co-hosting a challenge with Esté MacLeod this month inspired by Women Abstract Artists. Esté had curated four color palettes, each paired with a shape prompt and inspired by four amazing female painters. Each palette/prompt will be shared on the 5th, 11th, 18th and 25th of this month.

Be inspired with us, explore and share your outcomes at #coloriabstract and #coloricombo

I’m excited to dive in!

Our first featured artist is:

Lenore “Lee” Krasner (born Lena Krassner; October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American ​abstract expressionist​ painter, with a strong speciality in ​collage​. She was married to ​Jackson Pollock​. Although there was much cross-pollination between their two styles, the relationship somewhat overshadowed her contribution for some time. Krasner’s training, influenced by ​George Bridgman​ and ​Hans Hofmann​, was the more formalized, especially in the depiction of ​human anatomy​, and this enriched Pollock’s more intuitive and unstructured output.

Krasner is now seen as a key transitional figure within abstraction, who connected early-20th-century art with the new ideas of postwar America, and her work fetches high prices at auction. She is also one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the ​Museum of Modern Art​.

The first palette is below. The shape to feature in your first piece is … the circle.