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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Abstract Expressionism as action painting « Previous | |Next »
November 26, 2007

Franz Kline's work is deemed to be a response to a distinctively urban, specifically New York sensibility and to the life of metropolis. It is deemed to a gritty honesty by the deliberate, blatant roughness of its execution and the poverty of materials: cheap, commercial house paint slathered on a flimsy sheet of paperboard. Kline insisted his most successful paintings were visual responses to a specific emotional state in that his images were "painting experiences," in the sense that it is the act of painting that becomes a genuine experience for the artist

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Franz Kline, Orange Outline, 1955, Oil on paperboard, mounted on canvas,

But he would have found similar images on the walls and streets of New York. Kline claimed to paint "not what I see but the feelings aroused in me by that looking." However, we are a along way from the 1950s and what we have is the image before us as a self continued object. The experience of painting has disappeared into history.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 11:44 PM |