With a visual language of stylized flats in amplified colors, Alex Katz sought inspiration from Japanese woodcuts and American culture to create his distinctive portraits and landscapes. His bold and simple paintings are noted as precursors to the Pop Art movement, Katz career includes a prolific oeuvre in printmaking, his prints adhering to the artist’s unremitting style that characterized the subjects and spaces he immortalized.
Alex Katz
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