Alex Katz
Alex Katz (July 24, 1927) is an American artist.
| Alex Katz | |
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| File:Alex Katz - Speaking Portraits circa 2002-2005.jpg | |
| Alex Katz | |
| Born | 24 July 1927
(aged 98) |
| Field | Sculpture, Painting, Printmaking |
| Training | The Cooper Union, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| Movement | East Coast Figurative painting, New Realism, Pop Art |
Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927 and raised in Queens, New York. He went to school at Woodrow Wilson Vocational High School. That school let him make art much of the time.[1]
In 1946 he studied art at Cooper Union in New York City. After that, in the summers of 1949 and 1950, he went to the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine. In the mid-1950s he bought a house in Lincolnville, Maine.[1]
He had his first art show in 1954. He was friends with many poets in New York, such as Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Edwin Denby. Many creative people are in his paintings, such as choreographer Paul Taylor, Denby, O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, the filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, and the dancer Bill T. Jones.[1]
From 2022 to 2023, the Guggenheim Museum showed a large range of Katz's art from his whole career. It was called "Alex Katz: Gathering."[2]
Alex Katz Media
- Alex Katz, Ada on Blue, 1959 1 15 18 -whitneymuseum (39962305085).jpg
Ada on Blue, 1959. Whitney Museum
- Lawn Party, 1965.jpg
Lawn Party, 1965. Museum of Modern Art
- Alex Katz - Paul Taylor Dance Company.jpg
Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1964. Museum Brandhorst
- Sunset 1 2008.jpg
Sunset 1, 2008. Tate Modern
- Alex Katz Times Square Mural.jpg
Alex Katz Times Square Mural, 1977
- Ted Berrigan, 1967.jpg
Alex Katz. Ted Berrigan, 1967. Oil on linen, 48 x 48 inches.
- Ella Marion in Red Sweater, 1946.jpg
Ella Marion in Red Sweater, 1946
- The Black Dress, 1960.jpg
Alex Katz. The Black Dress, 1960. Oil on linen. 72 1/4 x 84 1/2 inches.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fortini, Amanda; Soth, Alec (2022-08-18). "Alex Katz Is Still Perfecting His Craft" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/t-magazine/alex-katz.html. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ↑ "Alex Katz: Gathering". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
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