Rising Green 1972

This is Lee Krasner’s ‘Rising Green’, hanging here at the Met, and I’m thinking about her, painting this, maybe in her studio. Look at how those dominant gestures in white and green emerge, shifting, through trial, error, and intuition. I really sympathize with Krasner, imagining what it might have been like to create this. What was she thinking when she made it? The paint looks relatively thin on the canvas, allowing the colors to speak clearly. Take a look at one of the green strokes—see how it’s applied with such energy, almost like a blade cutting through space? It's like she's slashing the canvas, but also guiding you into a new way of seeing. You see how these elements really shape our experience of the painting? Krasner was really in conversation with other painters of her time, like Pollock, and they were inspiring each other’s creativity. Painting, for her, was an embodied form of expression that embraced ambiguity and uncertainty. The multiple interpretations keep the work alive.