Its got some Franz Kline in it. I also like the stuff but Ive always been an Abstract Expression enjoyer. As JL used to say,
"Its the free act of painting thats presented in his work"
I am not wholly opposed to the abstract stuff, but I am very selective, even among the celebrated artists.
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coluber2001
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Tue 19 Dec, 2017 01:42 pm
I think it's not so much the critics but the self-criticism that's so destructive to creativity. We can ignore the others, but it's hard to ignore ourselves. Leonard Berntein said something to that effect, that he'd been all over the world but had yet to see a statue of a critic.
I think Bernstein broke through, that is he developed an original style.
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coluber2001
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Tue 19 Dec, 2017 01:53 pm
Here's a Franz Kline self-portrait. He could do representational too.
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edgarblythe
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Tue 19 Dec, 2017 01:53 pm
It's not the critics folks should worry about. It's the people.
Klein was commissioned to do a mural for a new Building in Lehighton Pa in 1945 (about the beginning of his public career as artist). His early woork was really mor like cezannish in color pallette. As the decades went along and until his deth in 1962 his growth into more and more spare abstraction became what he was ultimately known for.
This mural was just restored and hung in the Allentown (Pa) art museum in 2017. Its about 6.5' X 16 ' an it was GLUED onto a plaster wall for the 70 yer period
