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Listening to Alex Katz lecture at NatGallery
So cool to hear a living artist of his stature talk abt everyone from DeKooning to Jackson Pollock and abt how having confidence as a painter being critical to his art.He calls Abstract Expressionists "AE guys" nga.gov/calendar/lectu…
So cool to hear a living artist of his stature talk abt everyone from DeKooning to Jackson Pollock and abt how having confidence as a painter being critical to his art.He calls Abstract Expressionists "AE guys" nga.gov/calendar/lectu…
"All of the sketches are from life. I am just matching the colors," "painting the idea of the light instead of the sensation" As he describes trying to paint twilight.
Lecture is online too. Worth listening to. The art world used to be so much less fragmented. Clashes among schools of painters, because there were definable movements. Almost seems quaint nowadays. Long gone era.
