LEE KRASNER | SEED NO. 3

Lee Krasner was an American Abstract Expressionist painter who was particularly adept in collage. Until recently, she was perhaps best known as Jackson Pollock’s husband. However, there has been a noted reconsideration of Krasner’s influence on Pollack’s work, and for that matter the general school of Abstract Expressionism. Krasner’s more formalized training affected Pollack’s more intuitive and spontaneous technique. Seed No. 3 was painted at a time when Krasner mostly concentrated on creating works on paper with gouache. Krasner’s output from this year was named ‘earth’, ‘water’, ‘seed’ or ‘hieroglyphics’ and often looked similar to a Rorschach test. Some scholars claim Krasner meant to critique Green’s theory of the importance of the two-dimensional nature of the canvas.