The inspiration was possibly an engraving of a clock tower by the 19 th -century French artist Charles Meryon. Again, Kline represents not the object itself, but his vision of it. Seemingly spontaneous in its arrangement, this composition was conceived through a number of preliminary studies, shedding a new light on the nature of his gestural technique. Black Reflection is an example of Kline's early attempts at introducing color back into his works.
The treatment of color in this composition could be related to the contemporary paintings of Willem de Kooning and Hans Hofmann.
The focal point of this picture is the black shape that Kline previously employed in the Untitled composition of This fact further attests to the careful consideration the Action Painting artists devoted to the pictorial forms in their compositions. At first glance, this composition is typical of his black and white work. However, more colors are present on this canvas. There are dabs of yellow and pale salmon that illuminate the massiveness of black twisted shapes, creating warm luminous effects.
Probst I is an example of Kline's late work where he returned to employing a wider palette. Content compiled and written by Ivan Savvine. Edited and published by The Art Story Contributors. The Art Story. Ways to support us. Movements and Styles: Abstract Expressionism. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.
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. Read artistic legacy. Artwork Images. Influences on Artist. Willem de Kooning. Jackson Pollock. Stuart Davis. John Graham. Rheumatic heart condition discovered. Died 13 May , New York.
From to , at a time when many American painters were employed by the Works Progress Administration, Kline was studying in London. Nevertheless, the Depression-era themes of city and labor that were important to many WPA artists were adopted by Kline as well when he returned to America and settled in New York City. In Palmerton, Pa.
The palette seems tinged with soot, buildings cluster insubstantially against the hillside, and even the train is deprived of a sense of power or speed.
Although it is stretching it to claim to perceive the roots of his mature Abstract Expressionist work in this small painting, Kline does fill the canvas from bottom to top with hills, and spatial recession is sacrificed to an overall surface of broadly painted forms.
In addition to Merce C, the [Smithsonian American Art] museum owns another major black-and-white Kline of , an untitled work. Using acrylic paints, he produced a complex surface in which white is admixed with gray tones. As always, Kline painted the white as much as the black; it is not black on white but a dynamic dialogue between the two.
The racing horizontals across the bottom supply a sure sense of gravity, but also refuse to respect the lateral boundaries of the canvas. Their great trajectory pushes the edge outward, and the slightly tilted verticals, like the stack of an ocean liner, add to the sense of speed.
Although he is often thought of as only working in black and white, in fact Kline used color throughout his career. The personal style he developed during this time, using simplified forms, became increasingly more abstract.
Many of the figures he depicted are based on the locomotives, stark landscapes, and large mechanical shapes of his native, coal-mining community in Pennsylvania. This is sometimes only apparent to viewers because the pieces are named after those places and objects, not because they actually look like the subject.
With the influence of the contemporary New York art scene, Kline worked further into abstraction and eventually abandoned representationalism.
From the late s onward, Kline began generalizing his figurative subjects into lines and planes which fit together much like the works of Cubism of the time. In the Lehighton, Pennsylvania Post of the American Legion commissioned Kline to do a large canvas depicting the town where he had attended high school.
The work now known as The Lehighton Mural was later acquired from the American legion post by the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania and is today on permanent exhibition there. Wikipedia article References Wikipedia article. Wikipedia: en. Franz Kline Artworks. Chatham Square Franz Kline Cardinal Franz Kline Accent Grave Franz Kline Buttress Franz Kline C and O Franz Kline Mycenae Franz Kline Blueberry Eyes Franz Kline Untitled Franz Kline Scudera Franz Kline Palladio Franz Kline Meryon Franz Kline
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