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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Suspended - Franz Kline
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A stark, monochromatic abstract composition by Franz Kline, featuring a suspended black square form above a horizontal base.
Franz Kline is known for his large-scale, monochromatic works that occupy the space between gesture and structure. Suspended, painted in 1958, displays the artist's characteristic use of house-painter brushes and industrial black pigment against a stark white ground. The composition features a singular, heavy-set square form hovering above a horizontal base line. This arrangement creates a tension between the floating mass and the ground, a recurring theme in Kline's mid-career output.
Unlike the spontaneous, all-over compositions of some of his contemporaries, Kline's process involved careful preparation. He often worked from small sketches, sometimes created on telephone book pages, which he would then project and enlarge onto canvas. This method allowed him to maintain a sense of scale and architectural weight even within an abstract framework. The drips and splatters visible at the lower edges of the forms are not accidental, but rather evidence of the physical application of paint. They provide a record of the artist's movement and the viscosity of the medium.
In this work, the black paint does not merely sit on the surface. It interacts with the white background, which Kline treated as an active participant in the composition rather than empty space. The balance of positive and negative areas creates a sense of equilibrium. The work avoids representational imagery, focusing instead on the relationship between line, mass, and the physical act of painting. By stripping away colour and narrative, Kline directs attention to the raw energy of the brushstroke and the structural integrity of the composition. This piece remains a clear example of the artist's ability to imbue simple geometric forms with a sense of gravity and presence.
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Every Solis piece is made to order with archival, gallery-quality materials built to last.
- Museum-grade giclée printing for rich, fade-resistant colour
- Archival matte fine-art paper, FSC-certified
- Multiple sizes and framing options available
- Frames in black, natural wood, dark wood or white
- Framed prints arrive ready to hang
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- Dust gently with a soft, dry cloth
- Avoid prolonged direct sunlight
- Never use liquid cleaners on the print or canvas surface
- Keep in a dry, room-temperature space
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Suspended - Franz Kline
Ordinarie pris
Från £37.00 GBP
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Från £37.00 GBP
Ordinarie pris
Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Franz Kline
Kline painted black and white. Large canvases, housepainter's brushes, industrial enamel. The strokes are enormous, fast, and structural: they look like bridges, girders, railway trestles, the infrastructure of an industrial city rendered as abstract gesture. He grew up in the coal country of eastern Pennsylvania and the heavy forms of mining and railroad architecture stayed in his work.
He studied at Boston University and the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, then spent the 1940s painting figurative work in New York. The shift to abstraction came suddenly, according to legend, when de Kooning projected one of Kline's small drawings onto a wall using a Bell-Opticon projector. The enlarged image, freed from its original scale, became something else entirely. Kline began painting large.
The black and white paintings of 1950-61 are his contribution. Mahoning, Chief, and Painting Number 2 are decisive, architectural compositions that look spontaneous but were carefully planned. He made small preparatory studies on telephone book pages and newspaper, working out the balance of black and white before scaling up. The white is not background; it is as active and deliberate as the black.
He reintroduced colour in his last years, which surprised people who had defined him by its absence. He died of heart disease in 1962, at fifty-one. The career lasted roughly twelve years. The paintings are in every major museum of modern art.
He studied at Boston University and the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, then spent the 1940s painting figurative work in New York. The shift to abstraction came suddenly, according to legend, when de Kooning projected one of Kline's small drawings onto a wall using a Bell-Opticon projector. The enlarged image, freed from its original scale, became something else entirely. Kline began painting large.
The black and white paintings of 1950-61 are his contribution. Mahoning, Chief, and Painting Number 2 are decisive, architectural compositions that look spontaneous but were carefully planned. He made small preparatory studies on telephone book pages and newspaper, working out the balance of black and white before scaling up. The white is not background; it is as active and deliberate as the black.
He reintroduced colour in his last years, which surprised people who had defined him by its absence. He died of heart disease in 1962, at fifty-one. The career lasted roughly twelve years. The paintings are in every major museum of modern art.
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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