Other at difficult stages and Franz Kline was one of those who was the most supportive and really inspiring to the painters and sculptors around him. There was often times real camaraderie, real helping of each This book shows many wonderful aspects to Klines creative approach and (as expected) many images of his fine work. Like many abstract painters, Klines process and spirit is as fascinating as his final works. I think we hear a lot of stories about how solitary they were in their struggles or how moody they were as they wrestled with their art, but in fact that wasn't always the case. Franz Kline is a painting master and this book is a definitive and complete representation. Member of the abstract expressionist group. ![]() Regulars at the Cedar Tavern and really a Technologies and the industry that had set AmericaĪpart in the 19th century. Other parts of the country that were typical of the Franz Kline’s Buttress combines the intimacy of a small, flick-of-the-wrist ink sketch with the bodily scale of a dynamic, expressive action painting. Of bridges in America or railroad tracks or these That means that stroke was made not just withįingers, not just with a wrist, not just with an elbowīut with the whole arm and probably even the whole body and when you look at those marks on a Franz Kline painting, you have the feeling almost That you were going to dominate, either as a maker or a viewer and similarly, you are not going to have a polite brushstroke daintily made by holding a brush in one hand and a palette in the other hand, but instead the kind of forceful, gestural strength Paintings that were bigger than the human arm span or height and instead these were paintings whose scale was going to engulf you. On the wall of the studio because these were This diverse group of artists, including Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, produced large-scale abstractions that helped establish New York as the center of contemporary art after World War II. Were making paintings, not that you could paint on an easel, but that need to be painted on the floor or just have the canvas tacked Franz Kline was an important figure in the abstract expressionist movement, also known as the New York school. ![]() Painting that focused on a sort of rawness or brutality even that seemed to exemplify the new world. The abstract expressionists saw what they felt were the elegant qualities of European art as something that needed to be replaced with In the case of these paintings by Franz Kline, It's easy to make generalizations about how serene American art differs from European art, but Artist: Franz Kline (American, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 19101962 New York) Date: 1959 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 8 ft. Terms of the expaniveness of the landscape in terms Present I think perhaps a very American idea in Usually with a white background and then either only with black or with black and some other dark colors in a very sober, somberīut very strong key, we have canvases that Of the two factors of scale and of gesture inĪbstract expressionism are exemplified in the
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