Lee Krasner
Surprisingly good exhibition at the Barbican looking at the life and work of Lee Krasner. I say surprisingly good as anyone who follows me knows I’m not a fan of abstract art and I thought the art of the wife of Jackson Pollock would try by patience but I loved her! Maybe I understand female abstract expressionist work when the pictures by the blocks I just find annoying. I found this a much more joyous show than I expected. This show was really well arranged. For once it started upstairs in this space as it suited her earlier smaller works. I also liked the way it started with her smaller works made in the late 1940s after she’d married Pollock and then went back to show where the ideas had come from and he position in art circles of the time. I was fascinated by the section on when she supervised a War Services Project to design window store displays advertising war training courses. The upstairs section ended with Pollock’s death. You did realise what a shock it mus...