Thursday, 19 April 2012

Franz Klein

Franz Klein's work is very powerful. The large thick dramatic brush strokes within his absract expressionist work evoke depth and complexity; as he may have been his life to be.
 Klein orginally started painting around 1940 with just monocrhome colours, but then late in 1956, he started to introduce slithers of colour into his paintings, this may have been because he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
For my A level work, I studied Franz Klein for the strong brush lines, dark colours and general boldness of the pieces.
 The blue painting at the bottom of the collection here, is my favorite. The colours is so bold and spontaneous.


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