His most well known pieces are these black and white calligraphy style paintings. There is a sense of raw energy that is present in this work, which pushes and pulls the ink across the paper and yet there is also a sense of control, as the black vertical and horizontals are pulled back onto the surface of the paper by Kline's skillful handling of the white background. Form: Franz kline was formally known as a an Abstract Expressionist. As a child Kline was fascinated with railroads and while the title does not refer to actual shapes and forms, it does evoke a feeling or experience of motion. The title Cardinal loosely refers to the name of a train that Kline remembered from growing up in a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania. The title Cardinal loosely refers to the name of a train that Kline remembered from growing up in a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania. Study for Cardinal was a preparatory drawing for a larger painting that Kline would complete in 1950 and is currently in a private collection. Kline's restricted palette during the early 1950s allowed the artist to focus on formal concerns of composition and spatial movement through brushwork, paint application and the balance of forms. Shapiro, Abstract Expressionism: A Critical Record, 1990, Cambridge and New York, p.
Each painting is a complete and open declaration of feeling." (quoted in D. Franzs kind of town), speed as symbolized by railroad engines (Cardinal 1950. He did not wish to be 'in' his painting, as Pollock did, but to create the event of his passage, at whatever intersection of space and time, through the world. 2021 The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Frank O'Hara stated in his introduction to the Franz Kline Retrospective Exhibition in 1964: "To Kline, art meant power, power to move and to be moved.
As a key figure of action painting, Kline's work was action painting in its purest form.
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