Saw below at LACMA (a recent addition to their permanent collection). Krasnow worked mostly in Southern California from 1922 onward, becoming an important advocate of modernism in Los Angeles. During the final years of World War II, he began a series of abstract paintings featuring interlocking rectilinear forms in candy-colored hues. Conceived in response to the horrors of the war, paintings such as K-3 were intended to evoke harmony and optimism. “Between alerts, blackouts, rationing, brighter grew my palette,” the artist remarked. “When tragedy was at the deepest point, my paintings breathed joy and light-color structures instead of battle scenes, symmetry to repair broken worlds. A means of protest to ease the pain.”
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