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Artist: Franz Kline (American, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1910–1962 New York) Date: 1952. Medium: Enamel on canvas. Dimensions: 53 3/8 in. × 68 in. (135.6 × 172.7 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006. Accession Number: 2006.32.29.
Kline is most well-known for his large-scale abstract paintings in black and white from the 1950s. Many of them began with small-scale drawings that the artist would make in ink on the pages of phone books or collage out of scraps in his studio (around 1948 he had seen Willem de Kooning enlarging his own sketches with a projector). For this diminutive but powerful work, the artist formed an ...
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 ...
Franz Kline ( Wilkes-Barre, Pensilvânia, 23 de maio de 1910 — Nova Iorque, 13 de maio de 1962 ), foi um pintor americano do movimento artístico designado por expressionismo abstrato, que se centrava geograficamente em Nova Iorque e temporariamente nos anos 1940 e 1950. Franz Kline. Nome completo.
The mature works of Franz Kline are rooted in the legacy of Western art. He was concerned with the autonomy of the picture plane. That is to say, he sought to “activate” the entire surface of a picture as a continuous field, the force of the black bars and sweeping passages gaining impact by their conjunction with surrounding whites.
May 21, 2018 · Franz Kline. Franz Kline (1910-1962), American painter, was one of the foremost abstract expressionists. His best-known works are large calligraphic paintings. Franz Kline was born to an immigrant family living in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Following high school, Kline studied art at Boston University from 1931 to 1935, then spent a year at an art ...
Dec 6, 2023 · Abstract Expressionists are sometimes thought of as solitary figures—Kline wasn’t.
