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Franz Kline (American, 1910 - 1962)
Orange Outline, 1955
Oil on paperboard mounted on canvas
3ft 2in x 3ft 4in (96.5cm x 1m 1.6cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Levin, 1958 (58.8.8)
© 2006 The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Franz Kline's brash and freewheeling art wells from a distinctively urban, specifically New York sensibility. (He claimed to prefer the roar of traffic to the peace of the country.) Each of his paintings is a clamorous construction site, built stroke by stroke, revised and reworked. In Orange Outline the seemingly haphazard swaths of tar-black paint suggest an iron framework supporting the composition. The painting barely contains the energies of its making. Furthermore, it gains a gritty honesty by the deliberate, blatant roughness of its execution and the poverty of materials: cheap, commercial house paint slathered on a flimsy sheet of paperboard.
Kline insisted his most successful paintings were visual responses to a specific emotional state. Describing his images as "painting experiences," he explained, "I don't decide in advance that I'm going to paint a definite experience, but in the act of painting, it becomes a genuine experience for me."
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