I am not sure if it is a secret or not, but I love Franz Kline and all his work. One of my favorites resides at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk Virginia. Here, we see Kline’s work come out of the `black and white’ era with his experiments in color. These action paintings were well planned and almost always were products of carefully planned preliminary studies. Kline painted with industrial or common house paint, instead of finer studio paints used by his contemporaries. This caused some strife with the galleries whose customers wished for more archival works. The flat shininess of the work along with many splatters, and the many whites, yellows, blues, and blacks are apparent because of this choice.