Jazzy tunes and 73 absolute masterpieces by Alex Katz. Please comment to share your view on Katz's works and feel free to consider subscribing to stay posted on more contemporary art. Chat soon! Best wishes, The CAI Team
Were we right as students whispering as we walked between studio classes, painting was dead. Yes but human’s must always resurrect dead things. We can never be satisfied in letting something have it’s final rest. Letting go is never easy. To be honest things changed with Katz. Both in meaning and formal image. This is the point that most who enter the art labyrinth, never find their way out. Katz found a way out. Like other figurative greats he understood the answer; finding his own meaning and formal image.. The appropriations at first seemed silly but in the end transformed him. That what started off as that (intuitive play) became “for him” deeply personal and serious. Again thank you CAI for your presentations they make think! Wonderful stuff!
The painters, in the end, never left. From Pop Art to the London School to New European Painting, every generation has had some extraordinarily influential painters. You're spot on concerning Katz. Thank you!
Great to watch with a lot to learn about Katz and his techniques. The only downside is I would have liked to see titles more clearly. Where the paintings are, where they are available for public viewing would be a plus. Thanks for posting.
Hi George, thank you for your valuable feedback! The titles are indeed a bit small in the bottom left corner. We don't want them to interfere too much with the works by overlapping. However when you are watching on full screen I believe it is allright? The bottom credit line indicates if the work is somewhere on view to the public. If we read courtesy 'a gallery/auction house', then the artwork ended up in a private collection. Thanks for tuning in!
Hockeny or Katz.....Katz has a darker side that I want to see more about. Hard to like most of these faces that has turn into a play with standard forms. I like 6:23 it as a fresh wind. Tomorrow I forget it probly...
He has sure been painting for a long time, but I never liked a single one of his paintings. I think I sat near him long ago at a Harold Rosenberg lecture. I do admire his work ethic but my view is that every atist is ultimately limited by his/her innate ability or lack thereof. Just once I'd like to see him have some kind of real breakthrough and produce a great painting, but really that is impossible.
Thank you for tuning in and for sharing your most honest thoughts on Alex Katz. I believe it's interesting to see this struggle many seasoned art enthusiasts experience with Katz's works. Personally, I am intrigued by them, but they always seem "nearly good" to me. Maybe that's exactly why I am intrigued.
Jazzy tunes and 73 absolute masterpieces by Alex Katz. Please comment to share your view on Katz's works and feel free to consider subscribing to stay posted on more contemporary art. Chat soon!
Best wishes,
The CAI Team
Watching this was great! I'm getting to know more about Katz's work.
Thank you so much for tuning in and for your kind words!
Great paintings
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Were we right as students whispering as we walked between studio classes, painting was dead. Yes but human’s must always resurrect dead things. We can never be satisfied in letting something have it’s final rest. Letting go is never easy. To be honest things changed with Katz. Both in meaning and formal image. This is the point that most who enter the art labyrinth, never find their way out. Katz found a way out. Like other figurative greats he understood the answer; finding his own meaning and formal image.. The appropriations at first seemed silly but in the end transformed him. That what started off as that (intuitive play) became “for him” deeply personal and serious. Again thank you CAI for your presentations they make think! Wonderful stuff!
The painters, in the end, never left. From Pop Art to the London School to New European Painting, every generation has had some extraordinarily influential painters. You're spot on concerning Katz. Thank you!
Enlightening!
Thank you so much for tuning in!
Great to watch with a lot to learn about Katz and his techniques. The only downside is I would have liked to see titles more clearly. Where the paintings are, where they are available for public viewing would be a plus. Thanks for posting.
Hi George, thank you for your valuable feedback! The titles are indeed a bit small in the bottom left corner. We don't want them to interfere too much with the works by overlapping. However when you are watching on full screen I believe it is allright? The bottom credit line indicates if the work is somewhere on view to the public. If we read courtesy 'a gallery/auction house', then the artwork ended up in a private collection. Thanks for tuning in!
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Hockeny or Katz.....Katz has a darker side that I want to see more about. Hard to like most of these faces that has turn into a play with standard forms. I like 6:23 it as a fresh wind. Tomorrow I forget it probly...
‘73 absolute masterpieces ‘ is a bit much do t you think? I don’t even think you know what a masterpiece is lol
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He has sure been painting for a long time, but I never liked a single one of his paintings. I think I sat near him long ago at a Harold Rosenberg lecture. I do admire his work ethic but my view is that every atist is ultimately limited by his/her innate ability or lack thereof. Just once I'd like to see him have some kind of real breakthrough and produce a great painting, but really that is impossible.
Thank you for tuning in and for sharing your most honest thoughts on Alex Katz. I believe it's interesting to see this struggle many seasoned art enthusiasts experience with Katz's works. Personally, I am intrigued by them, but they always seem "nearly good" to me. Maybe that's exactly why I am intrigued.
thank you.
Good art is NOT about painting well.