Franz (Fritz) Kline . . . powerful Art

When I first saw his work, reproduced small in magazines and books, I wondered what all the fuss was about. . .just some black lines crisscrossing this way and that way.

When I visited the university gallery at Berkley and entered a room dominated by that work. . .wall sized, I was blown away. As an artist myself I never thought about size being so much part of the message. This painting was indeed expressive, painted on canvus attached to the wall with house paint and big brushes, the media was part of the message.

Recently a knowedgeable friend compared the blue painting you see below with his work because of the angles and general composition. I went to Google for an example and found a poster of this. the black lines meant something archetectural to me but then also when I analized it something more. see the copy with the red lines showing angles and rectangles. . only a beginning of a proper analysis, but this work is very carefully constructed and CLEVER.




in the end I took off on it and did this. very much me but with an under painting of his structure. . . .