Art.view: Settling on Old Masters Aug 31, 2008
He also started collecting, and was fondest of his Braque still-life and a Franz Kline. In the late 1980s the family business was sold, giving Mr Horvitz the time and money to collect more seriously. (The Economist)
Re-View Exhibition at Harvard Art M... Aug 22, 2008
Works on view include: Self-portrait in Tuxedo (1927) by Max Beckman; High Street (1950) by Franz Kline; (1950) by Jackson Pollock; and Back Support for a Fine-Limbed Person (Hare Type) of the 20th Century (1972) by Joseph Beuys. Asian and Islamic Art. (Suite101.com)
* [ART JOURNA] Seasons of Cy Twombly Jun 18, 2008
They had met at the Art Students League in New York and had attended the progressive Black Mountain College in North Carolina together in the summer of 1952, where their teachers had included Franz Kline and the poet Charles Olson, as well as Rauschenbergs future friend and long-term collaborator, John Cage. When Twombly returned to Rome in 1957, he returned alone, and moved into a large studio with views of the Colosseum. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The art of the print (5) Mar 20, 2008
"Despite his Japanese name and heritage, Matsumi Kanemitsu was "one hundred percent American," having been born in Utah in 1922, Curator Yoshida said, and was one of the darlings of the New York art scene in the 50s through 70s, along with painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. "He used to go drinking with Jackson Pollack [the famous "drip" artist of post-World War II Abstract Expressionism]," Yoshida explained. "Pollack gave him the American name 'Mike. It's always... (Malibu Times, CA)
Michael Goldberg, Abstract Expressionist painter Jan 9, 2008
Mr. Goldberg was a painter of strong convictions who in his youth was influenced by the gestural Abstract Expressionist mode of older painters such as Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, and Willem de Kooning, and never abandoned it. The improvisational nature of jazz, which he admired, was also important to his work. (Boston Globe)
Robert Kulicke, 83; artist modernized frame design Dec 16, 2007
He also became friends with Abstract Expressionist painters like Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline, who urged him to design thin frames that would be suitable for their work. His welded aluminum frame was created in 1956 when the Museum of Modern Art approached him for a frame to use for traveling exhibitions. (Boston Globe)
De Niro sues gallery Nov 21, 2007
De Niro Sr. was a well regarded post-war artist whose work was often displayed alongside such contemporaries as William de Kooning and Franz Kline and exhibited in museums around the country. He was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and eventually died of cancer in 1993 the age of 71. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
A tale of two shows Oct 4, 2007
Clearly a barnburner of a money-maker (the place is packed), this exhibition solemnly presents Bateman as an artist grappling with the big themes of 20th-century art, an heir to Franz Kline, Clyfford Still or even Vincent Van Gogh, a lone wolf wrongly condemned by the art snobs who are out to get him. This is patent nonsense, serving simply to reveal Bateman's shallow understanding of his great forebears. (Globe and Mail)
Artists fight for a fading way of life Sep 4, 2007
Illustrator Norman Rockwell and abstract expressionists Franz Kline and Lee Krasner were among those shaped by lessons in the blazing light of the dunes. The Hawthorne School of Art is now at risk of being swallowed by development. (Boston Globe)
Capturing spontaneity as composed chaos Jul 22, 2007
Compare the Franz Kline ink drawing here with one from a few years later by Richard Diebenkorn, and you see immediately how contrasts in temperament can engage the eye far more completely than art historical facts do the mind. A group show such as "The Passionate Gesture" may deliver scant sense of a period or of a shared sensibility to visitors not informed about them beforehand. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Portrait gallery Feb 9, 2007
Annie Leibovitz is photographing Steve Martin, in a suit painted with swatches of black paint that match the Franz Kline painting behind him. Even his pose has some sort of mock antique grandeur to it, as if he were trying to look like a sculpture himself. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Roy Newell, 92, noted abstract painter Dec 4, 2006
They were both among the founders of the Eighth Street Artists' Club, which featured such other famous painters as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, and Phillip Pavia. But he was a deliberate worker who rarely displayed his paintings. (Boston Globe)
Schiele painting to leave UM soon Nov 25, 2006
That collector, who over the past two years has lent paintings by Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline to the university for display, was not the same person who bought the Schiele painting; however, he was nstrumental in encouraging the buyer of the Schiele painting to loan the work to the University of Montana, said Barb Koostra, director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture. The painting was accompanied on its trip to Missoula by another major work, Anselm Kiefer's 1996... (Missoulian, MT)
From Soufflé to Canvas Sep 16, 2006
She names a number of influences, including Kandinsky, Picasso and Matisse as well as abstract expressionists Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. "I'm also influenced by El Greco's colors and sense of elongation, the idealized vision of Ingres and the spirituality of Siennese painting," she says. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Freddy's Back! Sep 13, 2006
While he very much identifies with the French, the artist's work reflects the inspiration of avatars ranging from Velazquez, Giotto, and Goya to Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack, and Franz Kline sometimes all at once. Marrying image and abstraction with freedom and discipline, he often challenges himself and his audiences with the robustness of an artist half his age. (City Pages)
The art of noise: Tate works given soundtrack Sep 1, 2006
Coxon, who was an art student at Goldsmiths College in London, where he was a contemporary of Damien Hirst and Sam Taylor-Wood, opted for the American Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline's Sixties picture Meryon. He usually designs Blur's album covers, so this time he was "doing things the other way round". (Independent)
blackrain: Work by Yeo Shih Yun Aug 4, 2006
An admirer of Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline, Shih Yun's works are typically executed with high-energy spontaneity using Chinese ink and acrylic. In 1998, Shih Yun majored in Communications Design in Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore). (AbsoluteArts.com)
St Kilda, and the Mexican wave Jul 19, 2006
Not always fun and games: A detail of Saint Kilda in the Desert. The suburb of St Kilda is an unlikely muse for Mexican artist Roberto Marquez, writes Larry Schwartz. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Echoes of tragedy, ecstasy and sublime Jun 30, 2006
For example, while Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock engaged in a highly gestural idiom, Rothko, along with Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, focused on the expressive potential of large color fields. Rothko in particular explored the physical sensations generated by an atmospheric field of radiant optical effects. (Korea Herald, Korea)
There's no place like Kansas City Jun 9, 2006
The small museum boasts works from Dale Chihuly, Andy Warhol and Franz Kline. Don't miss walking among the bronze legs of the giant Spider sculpture or the feet of the Crying Giant, both on the front lawn. (CNN -- Travel)
'Portraits' of the artist Apr 19, 2006
Hartigan was friendly with the likes of such Abstract Expressionist elders as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning in New York during the 1950s, and their gestural approach to painting influenced her own work at the time. Since moving to Baltimore in the 1960s and embarking on a still-flourishing teaching career at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she perfected a stylistic balance between spontaneous brushwork associated with that art movement and figurative subject matter... (Howard County Times, MD)
Jewelry designer enjoys ring of success Mar 25, 2006
Before designing jewelry, Yurman was a sculptor, hanging out with prominent Beat artists of the 1960s: writer Norman Mailer, painter Franz Kline, sculptor Ron Boise. "I did these funny little silver angels," he says. (Orlando Sentinel)
Touching the void Mar 16, 2006
He was never the type to mouth off himself, but his young friend and ally, Frank Stella, delighted in rattling the cages of Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning (Jackson Pollock was recently dead) and the other "painterly painters" of the New York School for him. Stella attacked the "transcendental nonsense" of the by-then legendary splashers and drippers in "asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas". (Guardian Unlimited)
