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Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.
==Early life and career==
Alex Katz was born to a Jewish family〔Snider, Suzanne, “Why do Alex Katz’s elegant canvases strike critics as the ultimate in WASP art?”, Tablet, A New Read on Jewish Life, November 21, 2006〕 in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who had lost a factory he owned in Russia to the Soviet revolution.〔Cathleen McGuigan (August 2009), (Alex Katz Is Cooler Than Ever ) ''Smithsonian Magazine''.〕 In 1928 the family moved to St. Albans, Queens, where Katz grew up.〔(ALEX KATZ: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 29 - October 13, 2013 ) Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor.〕
From 1946 to 1949 Katz studied at The Cooper Union in New York, and from 1949 to 1950 he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Skowhegan exposed him to painting from life, which would prove pivotal in his development as a painter and remains a staple of his practices today. Katz explains that Skowhegan’s plein air painting gave him “a reason to devote my life to painting.”〔Alex Katz. "Alex Katz". Phaidon, 2005. p. 210.〕 Every year from early June to mid-September, Katz moves from his SoHo loft to a 19th-century clapboard farmhouse in Lincolnville, Maine.〔Grace Glueck (September 9, 2005), (Clever Collages and Quiet Maine Scenes: Two Sides of Alex Katz ) ''New York Times''.〕 A summer resident of Lincolnville since 1954, he has developed a close relationship with local Colby College. From 1954 to 1960, he made a number of small collages of still lifes, Maine landscapes, and small figures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alex Katz in Conversation with Phong Bui )〕 He met Ada Del Moro, who had studied biology at New York University, at a gallery opening in 1957.〔 In 1960, Katz had his first (and only) son, Vincent Katz.
Katz has admitted to destroying a thousand paintings during his first ten years as a painter in order to find his style. Since the 1950s, he worked to create art more freely in the sense that he tried to paint “faster than () can think.”〔Shama, Simon, Dave Hickey, Alanna Heiss. "Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951–1995" (exh. cat.). New York: The Institute for Contemporary Art/ P. S. 1 Museum, 1996.〕 His works seem simple, but according to Katz they are more reductive, which is fitting to his personality. "(The) one thing I don’t want to do is things already done. As for particular subject matter, I don’t like narratives, basically."
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