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Not Black and White: Franz Kline

By Karl Cole

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2014
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About this lesson

Explains how Kline found his abstractions by projecting details of small sketches at large scale, then gives a studio exercise: draw a portrait, still life or landscape, crop a close-up area and repaint it in gouache or tempera until it becomes an abstract composition.