![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Kline’s paintings are not meant to represent landscapes, he titled a number of them, including this one, after towns near Wilkes-Barre, in the Pennsylvania coal country of his childhood. The composition’s strong internal structure plays against the frame of the canvas, with powerful diagonals that seem to break through the edges of the image. He typically began with a sketch, which he projected onto a wall, transforming simple lines into magnified abstract forms, and then replicated in paint. Yet Kline’s process was quite methodical. Atypically, Kline incorporated collage elements that seem to reference the drawing into Mahoning, affixing sheets of paper to the canvas under layers of black paint. Composed of broad, sweeping, and luscious strokes, Black, White, and Gray suggests unrestrained artistic spontaneity. The client told me that he received a call from someone in Kansas City. He based it on a small, preliminary drawing made on the page of a telephone book that was projected onto the canvas. Im actually having the exact issue with a client of mine located in Dallas, TX. Despite this appearance of immediacy, however, the painting-like many of Kline’s abstractions-was deliberately planned. 6 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Woodward Foundation, 1982. Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. View Franz Kline’s 814 artworks on artnet. 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. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Mahoning, a monumental armature of bold black enamel strokes laid against a white background, seems to be a record of Franz Kline’s spontaneous gestures its ragged brushwork and slashes of pigment suggest the free movement of the brush across the canvas. Franz Kline, Blueberry Eyes, 1959-1960, oil on paperboard, 40 1 8 x 29 3 4 in. Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist known for his distinctive monochromatic paintings. Franz Kline ( May 13, 1962) was an American painter. ![]()
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