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Summary of Franz Kline. American Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline is best known for large black and white paintings bearing abstract motifs set down with strident confidence. He started out as a realist with a fluent style that he perfected during an academic training that encouraged him to admire Old Masters such as Rembrandt.
Aug 30, 2023 · American. Associated Art Movements. Abstract Expressionism, Modern art, and Action painting. Franz Kline was born on May 23, 1910, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Growing up in a working-class family, he experienced the industrial landscape of Pennsylvania, which would later inspire his iconic artistic style.
Biography. Painter, Abstract Expressionist. Early in his career, Kline painted landscapes, street scenes and portraits. His mature style was abstract, distinctive for its broad, highly charged black strokes on a white ground.
Mar 19, 2024 · Franz Kline was an American artist who was one of the leading painters of the post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement. Kline studied at Boston University (1931–35) and at the Heatherley School of Art, London (1937–38), settling in New York City in the latter year.
Artist: Franz Kline (American, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1910–1962 New York) Date: 1959. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 8 ft. 9 1/2 in. × 78 in. × 1 1/2 in. (268 × 198.1 × 3.8 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1959. Accession Number: 59.165. Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS ...
Franz Kline began his career as a figurative painter, but in the late 1940s, he used a projector to enlarge his drawing of a black rocking chair onto the wall. Intrigued by the way the image appeared abstract when it was enlarged, he decided to dedicate himself to creating large-scale, black-on-white abstract works.
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