Kline Like Ink Drawings

[BluebirdNC]

Good grief at the animosity in the comments. There's nothing wrong with having students attempt to emulate a famous artist's style. If one has studied art history at all, one should know that many famous artists did the same when they were first starting out. Even if such attempts are not particularly successful, there's still a lot that can be learned by exercises such as this.

[anangsen]

@BluebirdNC SUre, one learns a lot by trying to walk in the footsteps of anyone, master or not. I am not saying that one should remain stuck in imitation, but it is definitely enriching to experience the processes of others and to walk a mile in their shoes.

[quenchedinlife]

kline did actually use colour in his paintings, later on in his career

[headsnak1]

I appreciate what you we're trying to do but I think it was the wrong approach. Perhaps you should have instructed the students to try to do minimalist paintings with very few colors. These end up looking like bad copies and what's the point of that. Teach students to do their own thing and not to try to imitate the masters.

[BenMcKernan]

yeah. totally agree. he didn't work his ass off and make brilliant paintings so that "students" can make rubbish copies!

[pod054321]

What an insult to an amazing painter. NONE of the non-Kline works shown here are ANY good at all.

Any bum can make a bad abstract black&white painting. Kline,Motherwell, DeKooning- were great masters!

[pod054321]

Some kid making black & white paint strokes on paper -is FAR from what Franz Kline did with his paintings & drawings. If you sum up Kline's work so simply, you make a joke of him. (and He's no joke!)

I've seen many Kline paintings in person, many i absolutely love and some i think aren't so great.

[pod054321]

The student works you've displayed are equivalent to someone painting a face with 2 eyes stacked on each other, a mouth in front view, a nose in profile- and calling it a Picasso. Missing out on the mastery of the artist.

[AutumnCanvas]

When people tell me that Franz Kline paintings could be done by anyone this is what i tell them.....

I severely doubt that you would've had the guts to create a painting like his during the time Kline was alive.

Such power in every brushstroke....

[KEPHALLE]

what is this bullshit??? emulate the poetical and artistic path of a great artist??? this is pure crap!!

ps: kline did not use only black for his paintings, but he layered black on white, white on black and so on: you'll never see a portion of the canvas still uncovered...

and he did the black and white process only for a period of his career, just to move on experimenting with so many other colors

[strawwoodclaw]

Excellent!