Katz is probably best known as a printer but he also did paintings , drawing, sculptures, collages, and painted cut-out figures .He has also done some set design for the choreographer Paul Taylor in 1960. ... After serving in WW2 he studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in NY from 1946-49, and then at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine from 1949-50. During the 1950's Alex was influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and other abstract Expressionists .During this time he produced swiftly executed pictures of trees as well as several works based on photographs...

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The whole sculpture is one big neutral color, light brown. ... The texture is rock or some sort of hard clay because this is a sculpture, a three dimensional piece of art. The value I see in this sculpture is because it is an actual three dimensional sculpture it casts shadows beside each body so even in a picture the viewer can easily tell it is a real three dimensional work of art. ... The balance in this sculpture is definitely asymmetrical because if you cut it in half the two sides would be uneven. ... I would label it realism with some abstract to it. ...

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Picassos" art changed radically around 1907, when he decided to incorporate some stylistic elements of African sculpture into his painting. ... Much like the futurists Constructivism sought an art that would be abstract yet easily understood. Their sculptures celebrated the material properties of objects, such as texture and shape. Construction is an additive process by which the artist combines ordinary materials such as metal and wood to construct sculptures. ...

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In The She-Wolf' (1943), Pollock combined surrealist automatism with subject matter that reflects his interests in ancient sculpture, non-Western art, and the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. By the late 1940s Pollock was among a group of young, mostly New York painters who became known as abstract expressionists. ... Abstract Expressionism was the term coined, in 1946, by American critic Robert Coates. ... Abstract Expressionism is characterized by a lack of representation and by an emotional approach to concept and execution. ... Among the early "breakthrough" paintings in...

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