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Franz Kline

1910-1962

American Abstract Expressionist 'Action Painter'

Stylistically influenced by the following painters and movements - Symbolism Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Japanese art

Education - he studied art at Boston University, and later at Heatherley's School in London, England

Cause of Death - Heart Attack

 Mahoning
Mahoning Framed Art Print
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 Untitled, 1951
Untitled, 1951 Serigraph
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 Red Painting, 1961
Red Painting, 1961 Serigraph
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Franz Kline Quotations

"You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has noting to do with knowing, it has to do with giving." -- Franz Kline

"If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone." -- Franz Kline

"The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?" -- Franz Kline

"The nature of anguish is translated into different forms."  -- Franz Kline

"I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important." -- Franz Kline

The  Abstract Expressionist Movement
 

 
Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky is considered as the father of abstract art.  In 1910 he exhibited the first totally abstract painting - a  mysterious and sensual watercolor. Abstract art is based upon the idea that the spiritual and emotional aspect of art  must be unchained from the figurative form. The movement was a rebellion against overwrought portraiture and trite historical themes. The artists dissociated themselves from representational art and emphasized emotional colors, non-objective forms, structure and composition. Abstractionists painted for themselves creating art for arts sake. They worked only from an inner vision and applied paint in a loose, vigorous manner creating beautiful intellectual poems. According  to Kandinsky, "Construction on a purely abstract basis is a slow business, and at first seemingly blind and aimless. The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that he can test colours for themselves and not only by external impressions."  Abstract Expressionism is a movement that grew out of the abstract style, originating in the United States in after World War II. Painters created vivid art-works in many diverse styles, using a variety of mediums. They emphasized uninhibited personal expression on very large canvases.

 
 
Key terms associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement - non-objective, modernism, non representational art, action painting, automatism, individualism, unconscious determinants, contemporary, colour navigation, avant-garde, emotionalism, post-modernism, art concrete, psychoanalysis, inner psyche  
   

Major Painters of the Abstract Expressionist Movement

Helen Frankenthaler
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
Hans Hofmann
Willem de Kooning
Franz Kline
Jackson Pollock
 Mark Rothko

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