Alex Katz: Five Hours
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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Title from title frames.
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In Process Record.
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Originally produced by Checkerboard Film Foundation in 1996.
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When Alex Katz paints one of his large, signature paintings, it is an act of the utmost concentration, a performance in which he draws on years of experience as well as preliminary sketches, painted studies, finished drawings, and a large charcoal cartoon, as he transfers the bare bones of the image to his canvas. It is only then is he set to paint "” he usually finishes his paintings within the span of a day. In this case, he paints the six-by-fourteen foot January III in five hours, as his son, Vincent Katz, and daughter-in-law, Vivien Bittencourt, film him. This painting furnishes an ideal example of Katz's technique, as we witness, in separate panels of a triptych framework, spontaneous passages of tree branches and the controlled modeling of a large face of his wife, Ada, the subject of many of Katz's paintings. We also observe the artist's famous portrait style, as well as the landscape style for which Katz has been acclaimed. The filmmakers decided against the use of dialogue; the painter is accompanied only by the music of composer and theater artist Meredith Monk. This film captures the essence of Katz, that quality Robert Storr of the Museum of Modern Art defines as the unquantifiable "cool", in a dazzling and moving display of commitment to the experience of painting.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bittencourt, V., & Katz, V. (2015). Alex Katz: Five Hours . Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bittencourt, Vivien and Vincent, Katz. 2015. Alex Katz: Five Hours. Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bittencourt, Vivien and Vincent, Katz. Alex Katz: Five Hours Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bittencourt, Vivien,, and Vincent Katz. Alex Katz: Five Hours Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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| Last Indexed | 2024-04-17 02:31:29AM |
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