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Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, and Lee Krasner, as well as local poets, dancers, and musicians came to be known as the informal group, the New York School.
May 23, 2017 · Early Life. Kline was born on May 23, 1910 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. As the cartoonist for his high school newspaper, Kline was a good enough student to leave coal-mining country and attend Boston University. With budding artistic ambition, he went to study at the Art Students League, and then Heatherly Art School in London.
Kline’s use of color is personal, too, but in the sense of “I like green and purple” rather than “Cerulean, to me, is the sky.”. Apparently he shared none of Motherwell’s powerful, semisymbolist intentions. In almost all of Kline’s color abstractions— Scudera, his last work, and Red Painting, 1961, are exceptions—color is used ...
Oct 26, 2023 · Franz Kline's oeuvre is often characterized by its bold, black-and-white compositions, a style that he developed in the late 1940s which became emblematic of his identity as an artist. Unlike the meticulously planned creations of many of his contemporaries, Kline's work is defined by its spontaneous, gestural strokes.
Video transcript. Ann: The importance of ... of the two factors of scale and of gesture in abstract expressionism are exemplified in the paintings of Franz Kline. Usually with a white background and then either only with black or with black and some other dark colors in a very sober, somber but very strong key, we have canvases that present I ...
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Jan 1, 2008 · Fielding Dawson. 3.37. 19 ratings4 reviews. Published five years after the painter’s death in 1962, this Beat-era memoir captures the creative and intoxicating period during which the author met and subsequently befriended Kline, first at Black Mountain College and later in New York City. His loose and poetic prose--featuring a characteristic ...
The Painting. Franz Kline’s Meryon of 1960–1 (Tate T00926; fig.1) is a large-format, vertically oriented abstract oil painting on canvas that was executed in the particular bold gestural style and black and white palette for which the artist initially rose to prominence in late 1950. It belongs to a group of paintings, dating to the early ...
