Word: klines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove that one school is better than the other; he simply wanted to show "the artist's handwriting, his forms, his palette, his style-the meshwork through which he sees life." Jagged Blacks. The most successful of the miniature retrospectives is that of Franz Kline. It begins with a straightforward drawing of David Orr, the collector who came across Kline exhibiting on a Greenwich Village sidewalk 23 years ago. The next work is a snowy landscape in which a black fence runs jaggedly through the scene, much as Kline's thick black abstract strokes do today. The painting...
...first time any of us saw Franz Kline's tall white paintings streaked with huge black strokes that might be girders or shadows, we were impressed...
...essentially the same Kline painting is in the Whitney called Probst I, and all you can say is 'So what's new?' Adolph Gottlieb's Soft Blue, Soft Black is another arrangement of one big circular smudge hovering over another, the lower more like a gear, the upper more like a sun. He's been doing it for years...
...linemen-who are supposed to be long on brawn and short on brains. The winners: Tufts' David Thompson, Rutgers' Alex Kroll, Vanderbilt's Wade Butcher, Western Reserve's Albert Iosue, Colorado's Joe Romig, Rice's Robert Johnston, Oregon State's Mike Kline, Utah State's Merlin Olsen...
...Kline, every admission to a mental hospital means that society or psychiatry has failed: illnesses should be diagnosed earlier and treated promptly and aggressively, which means using drugs in most cases. His explanation of why such energetic measures are not being generally adopted: "Blind prejudice, ignorance and despicable smugness are spelling disaster for tens of thousands of patients...