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Alex Katz

Alex Katz (Born 1927) is active/lives in New York, Maine.  Alex Katz is known for Post modernist figure and still-life painting, printmaking.

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The son of Russian immigrants, Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Queens in a liberal, Bohemian setting. He is a figure painter of realistic portraits of friends and family, and his figures are usually relaxed close-ups from a frontal perspective and appear in a flattened manner. With his artwork, he strives to convey the feeling that it is good to be alive.  It has been said that his style highly influenced the popularity of New Realism in the 1970s. Along with his associates Al Held and Philip Pearlstein,  and others who were struggling against the 'titanic presences of Pollock and de Kooning' and other abstract expressionists.

Katz studied three years (1946-49) at Cooper Union and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine from 1949-50.  During the 1960s, he was an art educator with teaching positions in New York City at the New York Studio School and School of Visual Arts; in New Haven   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12204 characters.]  Artist bio

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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