The Artist Project: Alex Katz

Artist Alex Katz reflects on Franz Kline's Black, White, and Gray in this episode of The Artist Project.

February 29, 2016

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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"The fixed value system doesn't seem to work well now. We live in an age with more variables. Kline's work was not absolute."

Artist Alex Katz reflects on Franz Kline's "Black, White, and Gray" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Alex Katz, born in 1927, is an American figurative artist, known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.

A painting by Alex Katz of two women with long hair wearing brightly colored scarves on their heads

Alex Katz (American, born Brooklyn, New York, 1927)

Face of a Poet, 1972

Oil on canvas; 114 × 210 in. (289.6 × 533.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Paul Jacques Schupf, 1986 (1986.363) © Alex Katz

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