Howard Hughes - Arts

American b. 1925, based in New York City ​
Alex Katz is a renowned painter and sculptor known for his large-scale depictions of landscapes, flowers and portraits. His brightly colored landscape and figurative paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema. In many wats, anticipating the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art. Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950’s Abstract Expressionism, finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation.