Franz Kline
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Franz Kline's Meryon of 1960-1961 is a disturbing painting."--Phenomenologies of Art and Vision: A Post-Analytic Turn (2012) by Paul Crowther "The gestural type of Abstract Expressionism is also exemplified by Kline's ' Meryon ' in which huge black brushstrokes of great energy and drama evoke a city world of girders and bridges , and in Brooks's ' Boon ' " Thermal ' , 1960."--Official Guide to the Tate Gallery (1974) |
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Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter 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 as the informal group, the New York School. Although he explored the same innovations to painting as the other artists in this group, Kline's work is distinct in itself and has been revered since the 1950s.
Selected public collections
- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection (Albany, NY)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)
- Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
- Tate Modern (London)
- Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)
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