Picture "Ariel 1" (2021)
Picture "Ariel 1" (2021)
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limited, 60 copies | numbered | signed | colour serigraph on paper | framed | size 155.5 x 97 cm
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Picture "Ariel 1" (2021)
The present colour silkscreen "Ariel 1" is one of the painter and printmaker's latest editions. He draws parallels in it between his very individual approach to painting and printmaking and his interest in poetry, as both are equally concerned with leaving out unnecessary details to reproduce only the essential information.
Original colour silkscreen, 2021. edition: 60 copies on paper, numbered and hand-signed. Motif size/sheet size 152.5 x 94 cm. Size in frame 155.5 x 97 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born in 1927 in New York) is considered one of the most important artists of our time. His large-format paintings are characterised by their simplified, colour-intensive style, which the artist developed in the 1950s in opposition to the prevailing Abstract Expressionism. Today they are almost synonymous with his work.
Important motifs in his œuvre are flowers. The intensive examination of simplified form, light reflection and colour composition is the artist's main focus, rather than specific statements.
Alex Katz has been honoured several times for his work, which is represented in numerous renowned collections, including the collection of the MoMA and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Tate Britain in London and the collection of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the U.S. and the UK independently broke with all traditions of artistic creativity, giving rise to a new art movement in modern art.
In the U.S., Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With bright colours, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective, they created new provocative works. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi became pioneers of Pop Art in England through the famous "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.