Monday, April 14, 2008

Franz Kline (1910-62)



"You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has noting to do with knowing, it has to do with giving."

---Franz Kline

One of Pollock’s favourite drinking partners at the Cedar Tavern was Franz Kline. Originally a figurative painter, Kline discovered a new approach to working after enlarging one of his small pencil sketches. The enlargement created some interesting abstract designs, and it was from these that Kline created his large black and white gestural paintings. Because he only used black, the linear quality of Kline’s work created parallels with element of Asian calligraphy. The broadly applied areas of paint reflect Kline’s slashing arm movement.

I like his work because I just like it. He inspired me to do something in an expressionistic, aggressive way. Just let my arms to draw just let my body to move without thinking. Stop worrying about the result…
…learning while we are doing…
Spend more time to find our own form…once we have got an idea...our life is short…stop thinking the difficulty and just try to do it :P

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