he was influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and other Abstract
Expressionists and produced swiftly executed pictures of trees as well as
various works based on photographs
another interesting fact isHe developed his style in the portrait works of ordinary people from the late 1950s, such as Ada with White Dress (1958; artist's col., see Sandler, pl. 55). This resolution of the demands of formalism and representation looked forward to the Pop art of the following decade.
Also Katz has admitted to destroying a thousand paintings during his first ten years as a painter in order to find his style. Since the 1950s, he worked to create art more freely in the sense that he tried to paint “faster than [he] can think
another interesting fact isHe developed his style in the portrait works of ordinary people from the late 1950s, such as Ada with White Dress (1958; artist's col., see Sandler, pl. 55). This resolution of the demands of formalism and representation looked forward to the Pop art of the following decade.
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