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Alex katz flower paintings.
His elegant paintings present a modern quintessentially american take on the classical themes of portraiture landscape figure studies marine scenes and flowers.
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Small paintings addison gallery of american art phillips academy andover ma april 7 july 31 2001 whitney museum of american art new york ny september 21 2001 january 4 2002 whitney museum of american art at philip morris new york ny september 21 2001 january 4 2002 kemper museum of contemporary art kansas city missouri march 22 june 2 2002.
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Alex katz summer flowers an iconic figure of the 20th century art alex katz is known for his highly stylized visual vocabulary which developed as a reaction to the ideas of abstract expressionism that were blossoming in the united states during the 1950s.
In the 1950s katz grew frustrated that his portraits lacked a sense of movement so he began painting the wildflowers he discovered near his summer.
American artist alex katz is known for his examination of the three dimensional space with his simplified portrait and landscape imagery.
In 1928 the family moved to st.
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Early life and career.
From 1946 to 1949 katz studied at the cooper union in new york and from 1949 to 1950 he studied at the skowhegan school of painting.
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Flowers for over six decades alex katz has found inspiration in all types of flowers transforming wind blown tiger lilies marigolds roses and petunias into iconic works of pop art.
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The first time he created a flower painting was in the late 1960s when the artist depicted extreme close ups of singular flower.
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Alex katz is an american painter renowned for his large scale depictions of landscapes flowers and portraits.
Flower paintings work by alex katz on view at the guggenheim museum bilbao from october 23 2015 to february 7 2016.
