Distilling Art to Its Essence: Q&A with Alex Katz

When one thinks of the work of Alex Katz, one often thinks of flatness. That’s actually somewhat misleading. Katz’s famous paintings-alive with color and expressive line and often portraying people who are beautiful but psychologically mum, almost Etruscan in their inscrutability-have tremendously dynamic surfaces, the product of his demanding method of painting wet paint into wet, allowing the colors to mingle. For over half a century, however, the artist has been creating masterful prints that boil down his paintings to their essential qualities, presenting them as more or less pure images. READ MORE

Posted on: December 26th, 2012 by Andrew
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