ALEX KATZ | Harbor 10

Galleria Mazzoli, Modena
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario

Modena, Galleria Mazzoli, Alex Katz, 2001, illustrato a colori

The work is in generally good overall condition. There are few dots of pressure along upper margin, along upper right margin and by the left one to the top. The canvas is slightly wavy by upper left corner and by the center of lower margin. There is a minor trace of fold along left margin to the bottom. No traces of retouching appear to be visible under UV light.
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“Vorrei aver inventato i blue jeans: la cosa più spettacolare, più pratica, più comoda e disinvolta. Hanno espressione, modestia, sex appeal, semplicità – tutto ciò che desidero per i miei vestiti.”
Yves Saint Laurent L’artista è attento ai cambiamenti del fashion, alle acconciature, agli accessori. La donna è immobile, ci fissa con una disinvoltura stoica in un paio di blue jeans, il capo più democratico della moda.
Il pittore appartenente alla scuola di New York ha sviluppato la sua estetica altamente stilizzata in reazione all'espressionismo astratto degli anni '50, trovando la sua personale distinzione tra formalismo e rappresentazione. I suoi dipinti figurativi sono resi in uno stile piatto che prende spunto dalla cultura visiva quotidiana come la pubblicità e il cinema, in molti modi anticipando sia le preoccupazioni formali che concettuali della Pop Art.




"I would like to have invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most comfortable and the most casual of all clothes. They possess expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - everything I want in my clothes."
Yves Saint Laurent

The artist is attentive to changes in fashion, hairstyles and accessories. The woman is sat still, staring at us with a stoic ease in a pair of blue jeans, the most democratic of fashion pieces.
The painter, who belongs, to the New York school, developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to the abstract expressionism of the 50s, finding personal distinction between formalism and representation. His figurative paintings are rendered in a flat style inspired by everyday visual culture such as advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art.



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