Blog #12. Alex Katz at the Guggenheim Museum
Blog # 12. Alex Katz " Gathering" at the Guggenheim Museum, Oct. 22, 2022- Feb. 20, 2023. Catherine Abrams
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Το Μουσειο Γκουγκεναιμ της Νεας Υορκης παρουσιαζει την εκθεση του Αλεξ Κατς εως τις 20 Φεβρουαριου, 2023. Τα βιντεο παρουσιαζουν τα εκθεματα και τον ιδιο τον καλλιτεχνη να σχολιαζει το εργο του.
Here is some information about Alex Katz:
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Alex Katz was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York,
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. Every year from early June to mid-September, Katz moves from his SoHo loft to a 19th-century clapboard farmhouse in Lincolnville, Maine. A summer resident of Lincolnville since 1954, he has developed a close relationship with local Colby College. 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. Vincent Katz had two sons, Isaac and Oliver, who have been the subjects of Katz's paintings.
"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."
In the early 1960s, influenced by films, television, and billboard advertising, Katz began painting large-scale paintings, often with dramatically cropped faces. To make one of his large works, Katz paints a small oil sketch of a subject on a masonite board; the sitting might take an hour and a half. He then makes a small, detailed drawing in pencil or charcoal, with the subject returning, perhaps, for the artist to make corrections. Katz next blows up the drawing into a "cartoon," sometimes using an overhead projector, and transfers it to an enormous canvas via "pouncing"—a technique used by Renaissance artists, involving powdered pigment pushed through tiny perforations pricked into the cartoon to recreate the composition on the surface to be painted. Katz pre-mixes all his colors and gets his brushes ready. Then he dives in and paints the canvas—12 feet wide by 7 feet high or even larger—in a session of six or seven hours.
Μια καταπληκτικη εκθεση! Enjoy! Until next time. T
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