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Franz Kline (1910-1962) is often pigeonholed as a "black and white" painter. Above is a selection of work by the Ab-Ex master in which color merges with gesture and at times takes center stage.
Learn more about Franz Kline (1910-1962), a well-known American abstract expressionist painter.
Franz Kline (1910-1962) is often pigeonholed as a "black and white" painter. Above is a selection of work by the Ab-Ex master in which color merges with gesture and at times takes center stage.
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Untitled 1950 Franz Kline (1910-1962 American) Ink on paper
To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in. —Kline in 1958 interview with Frank O’Hara FRANZ KLINE IS FOREVER IDENTIFIED with large black-and-white paintings,…
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Belem, Berardo Collection, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal Material: Oil on canvas Collection: Berardo Collection MOVEMENT: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM Franz Kline QUOTES: "I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me." "The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotion come across?" BIOGRAPHY CHILDHOOD Franz Kline was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a small coal-mining community that offered few opportunities for artistic development. His childhood was marred by a complicated relationship with his parents. His father, a saloon keeper, committed suicide in 1917, when Kline was only seven years old. His mother later remarried and sent her son to an institution for fatherless boys, which the artist referred to as "the orphanage." EARLY TRAINING Determined to make his own way, Kline worked as a cartoonist for his high school newspaper and managed to escape his small town to attend Boston University's School of Art, between 1931 and 1935. Boston offered him a wealth of opportunities: not only did his instructors help familiarize him with modern art, but he also learnt much from the city's private and public collections. After leaving, he studied briefly at the Art Students League in New York. He then went to England where he enrolled in the Heatherly's School of Art in London. It was there that he met his future wife, Elizabeth V. Parsons, a former ballet dancer who was working as an artist's model at the school. She returned with Kline to New York in 1938 but would later suffer a mental breakdown and spend time in mental institutions. MATURE PERIOD The first few years back in New York proved difficult for Kline. He was forced to take odd jobs: he painted murals in bars and sold illustrations to magazines. At this point, his work was shaped by his love of Old Masters such as Rembrandt, but in 1943 he met Willem de Kooning and began to frequent the Cedar Bar, where he met Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston. Around 1947, under the influence of de Kooning, he also began to abandon figuration and experiment on a large scale with a gestural, abstract technique. He had already began to explore an austere black and white palette in a series of ink on paper sketches, but now he brought the technique to canvases and employed house-painting brushes to create broad strokes of black criss-crossing white canvases. In part he was inspired by de Kooning's black and white paintings of 1946-49, and - although the story is apocryphal - it is said that de Kooning also inspired him to scale up the work, after he encouraged him to examine it using an enlarger. "A four by five inch black drawing of a rocking chair," Kline recalled, "...loomed in gigantic black strokes which eradicated any image, the strokes expanding as entities in themselves, unrelated to any entity but that of their own existence." The pictures, which resulted from this revelation, were first exhibited at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York in 1950, a show that established Kline's reputation. Critics have long debated whether Kline's black and white paintings were inspired by Japanese calligraphy. The suggestion first surfaced in reviews of his breakthrough show of 1950. However, the artist denied it, claiming that his inspirations came from unconscious sources. When asked to explain the meaning of his work, he refused, saying that he wanted the viewers to feel the effects of the composition unhindered by suggestion. Instead, he emphasized the non-symbolic character of the work, and what he called "painting experience." He was supported in this by critics such as Clement Greenberg, who focused on the importance of abstract form in art, and sidelined discussions of sources or content. Kline also put a distance between himself and contemporaries such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, whose art expressed an urge to transcendence. And, although his gestural approach might seem to place him close to de Kooning, Kline was less interested in wild expression than in the isolated gesture itself. LATE PERIOD AND DEATH By 1955 Kline was experimenting with color once again - using planes painted in different hues to evoke a more complex sense of space. His style also became looser, and by the early 1960s, in works such as Red Painting (1961), some of his pictures were almost monochromatic. By this stage, Kline's reputation was secure as a leading Abstract Expressionist. He was exhibiting continuously both in the U.S.A. and abroad, and was selected to show at the Venice Biennale in 1960, along with Hans Hofmann, Philip Guston and Theodore Roszac. In 1961, his works were also included in "American Vanguard", an exhibition organized by the United States Information Agency, and which toured countries throughout Europe. Such exhibitions have since come to be seen as an important facet of the American government's efforts to advance itself as a guardian of free expression in the midst of the Cold War. He died unexpectedly of heart failure on May 13, 1962, aged only fifty-two. LEGACY Although Kline's death received much attention in the press, his fame declined in subsequent years and his work was not seriously revisited until the art market boom of the late 1980s. However, a new generation of Minimalists found much of interest in his work. They rejected the heroics of his gestures, and their aura of lofty nobility, but they were attracted by the way the viewer could feel energized by the architectonic forms of his motifs. What to some critics seemed like references to architecture then became almost real built surfaces in the work of artists like Donald Judd and Richard Serra. SOURCE: www.theartstory.org/artist-kline-franz-life-and-legacy.htm
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Franz Kline was an Abstract Expressionist artist of the 1900s. He was born in 1910 in Pennsylvania, and developed his love for art in his high school drawing class. He decided to take on art as a career, first studying illustration and cartooning. He attended the Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in London, from 1936-1938, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth. He moved to New York and lived as a starving artist; he struggled to survive because he didn’t like to sell his paintings. Kline struggled to find an artistic style throughout much of his career. He began doing figurative work, drawing many self-portraits. He also painted landscapes, still lifes, and murals. Then, in 1946, he gradually turned toward abstraction. Once he found his niche in abstract art, there was no turning back. His abstract paintings became so famous that they overwhelmed every other aspect of his art. Many people know Kline for his abstractions, but not many people know that he did other types of art as well. His most famous abstract pieces are his black and white paintings. These are paintings of extreme contrast and dramatic lines. I was intrigued by these paintings because they are so unique; they are simple, yet loud and bold. Figure Eight is a black and white painting that caught my eye because of its intense black line- the line captures so much energy and movement. I also like his technique of “overpainting” in Figure Eight, which is where “Many of the whites… lie on top of the blacks, some of which Kline let show through intentionally while others have worked to the surface as the painting has aged” (Gaugh 78). This gives the painting visual layers that capture attention. Figure Eight Although Kline was most known for his abstractions, one of his paintings I really liked was from the Jazz Murals he painted in 1933. He painted a series of stylized musicians on a wall in the town roller-skating rink in Lehighton, PA. I love these murals because music is such a passion of mine, and he really portrayed the musicians in an exciting way. It's almost like you can hear the music they are playing because each character is portrayed with such movement and excitement. Unfortunately, the walls which the murals were painted on were torn down in 1980. Another painting I like incorporates his early figure drawings with abstract qualities. Small Seated Figure was painted in 1947 and combined "loosely brushed contour with colored planes" (Gaugh 42). Small Seated Figure One of my favorite paintings I found when researching Kline's work was an untitled piece painted in 1948. In this abstraction, Kline used so many different textures and colors, as well as shapes and figures. I find myself trying to find different images among the painting, even though it just consists of lines and curves. The way he placed the colors and lines together is quite fascinating. Franz Kline created similar abstract paintings to the black and white images, but utilized color as well. Many of his abstract paintings are very colorful, while others are quite simple. One of the more simple paintings I love is his Scudera. This piece is primarily painted different shades of blue, with black and red accents. I like how simple this painting is, yet beautiful and elegant. The rich blue color and very calming and easy on the eye. Gaugh, Harry F. Franz Kline. Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1994. Print. Metzger, Robert P. and Franz Kline. Franz Kline: the jazz murals. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 1989. Print.
