How to paint like Franz Kline - with Corey D'Augustine | IN THE STUDIO

Learn how to paint like artist Franz Kline, one of the key figures of the abstract expressionist movement, with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D’Augustine.
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The Painting Techniques of Franz Kline: Chief
Abstract Expressionist New York
The Museum of Modern Art, October 3, 2010--April 11, 2011
MoMA.org/abexny
Filmed by Plowshares Media
Images courtesy of The Franz Kline Estate; Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Music by Chris Parrello
Chris Parrello, Ian Young, Kevin Thomas, Ziv Ravitz
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art
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[@themuseumofmodernart]

Hey everyone, tune in this Wednesday, May 17 at 3:30 p.m. EDT for a *LIVE* Q&A with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D'Augustine. Corey will answer questions from previous videos, as well as from the live comments section. Watch live: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYKVeHd_a5xmotE

[@snode001]

Love the narrator's voice. Very confident, informed, professional, yet approachable. Thanks MoMa!

[@sophien5416]

The explanation of Kline's process really makes me appreciate his art more. I think what I like best about abstraction is the accessibility of the process and it's raw nature. The end result is so sensoral and emotionally evocative without trying.

[@Kevo216666]

You are all wrong. These are amazing. Go and see it, it's in Tate Modern. Or paint one for yourself - it's more rewarding than whining about it in a comments section.

[@somethinghhh6005]

+K Russell Yeah. It's tough to defend certain types of art because art is specific in interpretation... everyone likes different things basically. The extent the objective quality of the art is in the textures and depth of field. other than that... people are lost in themselves.

[@jeanpeuplu4926]

Kline's work is hypnotic. Love it

[@DG-mv6zw]

These MoMA shorts about the process of featured artists are fantastic. Corey does such a brilliant job at painting, narrating and analysing each work in a way that's so engaging. My only criticism is that there's not enough artists features and I wish they were a lot longer....which, when you think about it, is more of a compliment than a criticism. Keep them coming please, Corey. Greetings from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@samvanalsburg4621]

i learn so much from this guy...love this series

[@KayInMaine]

Still in awe at how simple and powerful his paintings like this are!

[@smythe555]

It's hilarious (and sad) to read ignorant comments on Kline's work (and other abstract artists). 70 years later, and these geniuses are in fact likely mocked more than ever. We live in a sadly conservative era (I don't use the word conservative politically, but culturally.) What I see in Kline is that he played with perspective to create a composition that had great movement. His line work was masterful and totally unique. The way he plays with space (and negative space) was revolutionary and very musical, (in my opinion). And finally, Kline's painting style is far more difficult to pull off than it looks. But that was really the point: to create works that highlight the ideas, not the technical achievements. If you don't see what is great in his work, learn about modern art, then look again, before denouncing it as "degenerate". You just might surprise yourself.

[@learnerlearns]

Excellent concise description of both the techniques and history.

[@joannavandeneijnden5437]

Wonderful explanation great to see someone with top knowledge demonstrate his skills

[@somnium5603]

I love Franz Kline.🖤 Thank you for this video

[@marcatkinson5187]

My favorite of all the modernist. I tried doing this----epic fail. Tension and balance are very difficult to reconcile.

[@cristinamota686]

Brilliant series, please continue!

[@GamesSatisfy]

I love all these videos, I love modern art and I’m an artist myself. But this dude could sell grass to a field

[@frided67]

I love this series, keep it up!

[@vangotti]

I’m so happy the Lord brought me to these videos, they are so fun to watch❤️

[@larrycostello]

great to have some techniques shown in action.

[@oscarvillarreal8951]

Art has no limits.

[@etienne7774]

Brilliant, I'm giving up w&n paints for house paints.

[@hg1651]

I like interior and exterior paints. They move differently and you can goof around with them.

[@ilikeyoutub07]

You are right! He has a great voice

[@michaelstuartesson4377]

When Corey D'Augustine mentions Kline's chair painting "chapter" around the 2nd minute it reminds me of Mary Gabriel's great book "Ninth Street Women" where the chairs in question are references to Kline's wife Elizabeth's chair sitting empty at their home while she was institutionalised with depression and schizophrenia. Apparently, unlike Gorky, Kline had a magic way of making fellow artists smile through occasional dark humour and an infectious laugh. At the age of 50 I'm just now starting to dig into his amazing life.

[@yuh9708]

I’m reading that book right now! Haven’t gotten to that part yet…

[@SankofaNYC]

Franz Kline makes great work

[@charlene777]

More in the studio videos please!!

[@evanstallone6294]

Can you please make an episode about Richard Diebenkorn? I have read almost everything on him, and have recreated works of his myself, but it would nice to see someone else's take on his methods.

[@cdace59]

Really enjoyed! Thanks for making.

[@pipocaemanteiga]

Nice explanation about Painter Klein

[@boredgrass]

Please more and please l o n n g e r! I find that this "hands on" approach "brings news" even when the facts are known. That embedded in this nice narration, results in a real gem!

[@tibbsshaleen]

I LOVE these videos!!!

[@Jack-pp2ng]

Kline does so much with so little

[@joevasquez3434]

Corey, sweetie, you pretty much have the line'age of Kline but have zero energy of Kline's masterpiece,.. and I assume it's that energy that makes Klines piece just that; a masterpiece. I enjoyed the video. Helped me understand Kline better. I am so very jealous of Klines style of art, ie: DeKooning, etc. I was trained in the Italian and Spanish renaissance style. My work sells well but my heart belongs to Impressionism and Abstract.

[@blackbird5634]

grrrrreat!! thank you!!

[@cl03cl]

Amazing

[@JELLYBEANKING132]

I started of watching sports highlights. How did i end up here?

[@SesameGhetto]

now that's a really good question

[@lorenrenee1]

Now this one I like.

[@mikeroth5816]

What ever happened to this series? Why did it seem to just stop around 2010? I suppose I understand. Things change. You can't stop that. But these videos with Corey were and are some of the most informative and inspiring videos on these artists I've come across. I still, as I did today, will periodically check in on this playlist to see if by some miracle you've uploaded another one, but there's never any new activity.

[@b.walter6646]

Kline was the favorite painter of fellow artist Don Van Vliet (aka... Captain Beefheart)

[@DG-mv6zw]

So do he use house paint or enamel paint? You referenced both, but I'm pretty sure that house paint and enamel paint are definitely not the same thing.Thanks

[@itspeache]

Can you please keep making these?

[@kimlacefield5716]

love...

[@CoolThisIsMyUsername]

it seems to me that abstraction like this is more of an exercise in painting absurdity onto the spectator rather than onto the literal canvas. The painting latches onto the spectator's imagination and forces its hand, as it were, or forces it to do something, to respond to it in some manner. Which results in two possibilities: 1) immediate rejection; 2) absurd justification. Frustration, of course, is entailed with either possibility. The objective that arises then becomes that of overcoming possibility - or at least the sort we are split with - by unifying its courses and accepting it. Thus the true encounter with Chief is acceptance, of undone evaluation. In other words, we can only see in it what is in it, and not what is lacking or even what it is trying to be. No, as the spectator, we are necessarily neutral. Hence the title: Chief. Or who knows really. Maybe I'm absurdly justifying it. Or worse, maybe I'm rejecting it without realizing it. I guess that at some point, like within the creation of Chief itself, you have to walk away, like Kline did, and say you've reached an end, like Kline did. The abstract invokes the labyrinth. We ask ourselves of Chief, "If it is what it is, what am I?"

[@marthasteward9533]

Looks like an Airplane. ❤

[@hmax1591]

since the artwork is called "chief" I would turn it 90 degrees to the left so it's displayed vertical and not horizontal. maybe he didn't want it to make it so obvious but it looks better if your turn it 90 degrees. maybe he was trying to achieve the tension I feel when I see the work. I do like his work.

[@artist_aquar]

Can you set the subtitles for translation to all world countries languages, please?

[@MichaelRpdx]

Didn't deKooning also use house paint? Early in the post-war era?

[@yagojam]

vaya patata de cuadro que pinta el señor que nos explica la tecnica,desde luego estoy de acuerdo con bocha 8601,si FRANZ KLINE levantara la cabeza...............

[@rachelsremedies2602]

What happens to you! Enjoyed your lessons! ❤

[@SilhouetteJudas]

Acrylic isn't crappy.

[@michaelgreco5086]

He was my great great uncle

[@83loveanimals]

House paint cheap??mmm..

[@alvarolima2547]

Is this oil painting?

[@0lemus0lent05]

I wonder if Kline enjoyed the housepaint fumes too

[@netsaosa4973]

looks like a bumble bee :)

[@simonegreco4620]

Looks similar to notan studies

[@633r]

i love painting with rubbish paint

[@robsonrocha8888]

💚💚💚💚💚💚❤️❤️

[@noahyyycod2217]

its just a camera

[@thosrobert]

Please, please, please, do NOT judge art based on images you see on the Internet for in some art book. If you have not actually see the art in real life, you should really just shut up. Because you're making fools of yourselves. Your computer screen cannot show you the texture, nor can it accurately relate the colors. I had seen Van Gogh in America, but it wasn't until I saw numerous examples of his work in Europe that it really set in. In London, they have what I call the Van Gogh corner, and it's amazing. Go to Paris. The Mona Lisa looks nothing like it does in popular culture. She's staring at you accusatively. It's kind of spooky. It's like she knows your secret sins.

[@yulli0314]

he is like super hyper?!!!!

[@SomethingImpromptu]

Love abstract expressionism… Can’t say I get the appeal of Kline or Rothko. But interesting video nonetheless.

[@terrygrund6598]

Kline would scribble on paper with india ink and a brush, block out sections he liked, project on canvas and paint.

[@eisberg7681]

Can someone who is not as uneducated as i am explain to me why this is art? just the painting itself...assuming without knowing who painted this exactly?

[@davidjamesshaver]

What do you think of it? I think it's just cheap novelty and I am very open to non realistic painting.

[@jacobdrollinger4802]

It's so strange what people regard as fine art! "Chief" looks like something my friend from down the street would do.

[@gypsysnickerdoodle4354]

House paint is designed to DEGRADE & fall off the wall, over time.

[@jerrykline9269]

My uncle 😂

[@sateremawe]

if you don’t get it, don’t blame it on the artist, just accept the fact that you don’t get it. this self awareness might make you start getting things at some point. arrogance towards the object wont.

[@noman3795]

this ones a blob this ones a line and a blob lol!

[@m.chagaev.8589]

"Paint"

[@SuperDsffdsf]

I have to tell the truth, i don't get it

[@user-ox8sr5yf3k]

ショック！

[@angiemarchinkow]

Corey, do people ever call you "C DAug"?

[@DJBIROfficial]

south park world is real

[@Doppe1ganger]

House paint aint anything but cheap these days. ):

[@Gafferone]

Dumbfounded really.

[@Dranectrakon]

this exactly demonstrates why i simultaneously love and hate abstract painters...no group of painters did more to alienate the public and also demystify painting...so torn. this guy is a total nerd tho ;) haha

[@vxxChristinaxxv]

Don't speak so quickly, dammit!!

[@mikenino1559]

And we can't even get our reallistic paintings in a gallery 🤣🤣

[@ivanhendr]

Monalisa is Art; this my friend is anything but

[@MichaelGrieve]

The painting is nice black/white but the explanation of the painting is absurd. Everyone who paints knows it's not difficult to make art like that. And it's normal that you have different colours of white, as you also have different colours of black when you go over the painting again, but it's nothing special.

[@epictetus9221]

Michael Grieve Of course the technique is simple. But, to be fair, it isn't exactly easy to paint like Franz Kline either. Of course you can do your best to mimic him, but that's not the same thing (as "everyone who paints" surely know). Case in point, this video. The demonstration doesn't look like Kline at all.

[@eilishella]

bullshit. The in depth analyses of these so called paintings always amuse me. Too funny.

[@coresss19]

if you didnt understand the idea of, lets just say, only that particular painting of his, then you better go to a justin bieber video, it will suit you 10.000 times better than art! btw, this kind of art is a psychological and also neurological (through vision) thing to study and so is in the macro-photography, but you are to imbecile for this!

[@sanantoniotonight5569]

what is the point of these "Painting like" videos?

[@bocha8601]

una payasada, como se dice aqui en argentina , sinceramente, una falta de respeto , a los grandes artistas, ue pintan de verdad, y no acen ver en sus obras, lo que vemos naturalmente, que suerte que ienen si venden estos mamarrachos, diganme como se hace para vender los mios que tienen una imagen diferente a estas rediculeces

[@Liusila]

I don't get how this is worth any attention whatsoever.

[@kushalnitnaware]

pretentious BS

[@nelsonx5326]

It's a painting about nothing.

[@UnknownFilipino]

Why are we acting like there's some in-depth technical approach to this? The pretentiousness of abstract modern art really baffles me.

[@davidjamesshaver]

Not art, just inferior novelty.

[@johnryskamp2943]

You make a mistake. You just paint black on white. Then you have to paint white on black. That's how you get what AEs felt was the paradox which, they felt was the essence on modernism, as introduced by Manet. Why don't you understand modernism?