Kline’s most recognizable method/style derives from a suggestion made to him by his friend Willem de Kooning. There seem to be references to Japanese calligraphy in Kline’s black and white paintings, although he always denied that connection. Bridges, tunnels, buildings, engines, railroads, and other architectural and industrial icons are often suggested as imagery informing Kline’s work. Kline carefully rendered many of his most complex pictures from studies. While generally his paintings have a dynamic, spontaneous, and dramatic impact, Kline often closely referred to his compositional drawings. Kline’s paintings are deceptively subtle. Kline re-introduced color into his paintings around 1955, though he used color more consistently after 1959. Kline’s best known abstract expressionist paintings, however, are in black and white. In the late 1930s and early 1940s Kline worked figuratively, painting landscapes and cityscapes in addition to commissioned portraits and murals. He would prepare many draft sketches-notably, commonly on refuse telephone book pages-before going to make his “spontaneous” work. For most of Kline’s work, however, as the phrase goes, “spontaneity is practiced”. Franz KlineĪs with Jackson Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists, he was labeled an “action painter” because of his seemingly spontaneous and intense style, focusing less, or not at all, on figures or imagery, but on the actual brush strokes and use of canvas. He was married to Elizabeth Vincent Parsons, a British ballet dancer. He spent summers from 1956 to 1962 painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and died in New York City of a rheumatic heart disease. He attended Boston University, and later taught at a number of institutions including Black Mountain College in North Carolina and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys.
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The abstract expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Today I am celebrating the wonderful Franz Kline! Franz Kline Untitled 1956- Franz Klineįranz Jozef Kline (– May 13, 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with Mahoning (1956)- Franz Kline Has nothing to do with painting, but I have to say that I am really glad that I moved artists around and not too many of them this month will melt my brain! Who knows though? I underestimated a few minimalist/abstract expressionists…it’s usually much harder than I think. This packing, moving, repairs, remodeling business this month is really starting to wear me down. It’s Day 43 and boy am I complete GRUMP today.
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