Inside a Kline Black Gesture

“A panoramic abstract scene rendered in the style of Franz Kline's monumental black-and-white Abstract Expressionism, with house-painter brushes and a palette of pure black, raw canvas, and only the occasional sliver of bone. Foreground shows two thick architectural black bars colliding diagonally, like girders torn from a bridge. Midground reveals brisk lateral strokes and dripped runs of black against the bare cream weave of the canvas. Background shows the same dense intersecting black gestures crisscrossing edge to edge with seismic force.”