Alex KATZ

BIOGRAPHY

An iconic figure of the 20th century New York scene, Alex Katz is an American artist who was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1927. Often associated with the Pop Art movement, Katz began exhibiting his work in 1954, and since that time he has produced a celebrated body of work that includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints.

TECHNIQUE

Alex Katz's earliest work took inspiration from various aspects of mid-century American culture and society, including television, film, and advertising, and over the past five and a half decades he has established himself as a preeminent painter of modern life, whose distinctive portraits and lyrical landscapes bear a flattened surface and consistent economy of line. Katz's flattening of forms, simplification of detail and alla-prima paint application are trademarks of his work.