AHIS BC 3626y Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Franz Kline, Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Art
25 Aug 2016
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He was unlike other artists who transition from one from to the next but became an abstract artist over night. He abandoned regionalist early 20th century american work and moved to produce works like study on a page of a telephone book. He abandons his legacy as a representational artist for a peculiar strategy of extremely austere and reduced mark making. De kooning helps him by suggesting his random marks on a telephone book is what is art. You can argue that this a collapse of abstraction and a trace of an abstract just becomes figurative. The next generation of new york painters all followed this trend. Used 15 different erasers to erase dekooning"s work. Negation of the previous generation as production to create his own identity its still a continuation because its an erase of a master of the previous generation. Jackson pollock, number 1 vs. barnett newman onement 1. The large painting isn"t bourgeois nor is it european.
