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Katz, Alex : Cutouts

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One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Alex Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his work, Katz records small incidents, momentary excerpts from reality. The people depicted seem melancholy, awash in an always flawless beauty which lends them a coolness verging on lifeless. Without ever cutting too deep, Katz's focus remains on the brilliance of surface--both his paintings' and his subjects'. Since the beginning of the 60s, Katz has been quoting the oversized formats of large-scale Pepsi and Lucky Strike advertisements and the dramatic compositions of film directors like Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. Simultaneously, if somewhat less famously, he started to "cut out" his figure paintings in order to carry the surface quality of his depictions to the extreme--first in oil on wood, later in aluminum. The exquisite book at hand presents, for the first time, a broad selection of Katz's silhouette sculptures.

Magyarországon kevésbé ismerik a nevét, holott Alex Katz az amerikai kortárs művészet egyik legjelentősebb alakja.
Alex Katz egyedi, már-már absztrakt látásmódot kölcsönöz az amerikai pop artnak, amely munkáit egyszerre testetlenné ugyanakkor nagyon személyessé teszik. Kiemeli, állóvá merevíti a pillanatot és felnagyítva rögzíti a képen. Az élet jelenvalóságát egészen addig fokozza, míg képein csaknem érezni lehet a levegő áramlását. Grafikáin a finom vonalvezetés nemcsak az ábrázolt alakok személyiségéről árulkodik, de az öröklét egyfajta fátyolán át látatja őket. Portréi a szépséget, fiatalságot a mozdulatlan időben ábrázolják.
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category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English >
category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in German >
category: Books > Arts > Fine Arts >
category: Books > Arts > Art album >
publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2003.
item number / ISBN: 9783775713047
binding: cloth bound (in original dust jacket)
pages: 95
language: English

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