Specialties
Contemporary, Photorealism, Pop Art
Alex Katz
Brooklyn, NY (American, b. 1927)
There are different kinds of freedom. Freedom in the ’50s was trying to get free of Picasso and Matisse, trying to get out of that other way of painting, and trying to paint in an open way, more like Pollock.
When I think of freedom now, it’s taking the sketches and trying to get that sort of painting from the unconscious. So when I do something like a large tree, the paint is being put down faster than I can think. That’s the freedom. And that’s been consistent since the ’50s, that kind of thing. ...
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