Franz Kline – Intersection (1955)
Kline was a bit of an oddball.
He’s usually considered an abstract expressionist–specifically: an action painter (aligning him with Lee Kresner, Williem de Kooning and Jackson Pollack–among others).
Yet, unlike most his peers (both action painter and abstract expressionist): he was adamant that his work was less concerned with conveying meaning and more preoccupied with drawing attention to concerns regarding form: composition, color (or lack their of), brushstroke, etc. (In this he was actually a prophet of minimalism.)
A further difference between his work and other action painters is that very little of Kline’s oeuvre was in any way improvised. While he did put brush to canvas, he moved quickly using the same type of brush you’d use to painting the exterior of your house, he frequently sketched and re-sketched his ideas (frequently using the pages from old phone books.)
Bonus fact: Kline was a professor at Black Mountain College where he taught Cy Twombly.
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