%PDF-1.7 1 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Outlines 2 0 R /Pages 3 0 R >> endobj 2 0 obj << /Type /Outlines /Count 0 >> endobj 3 0 obj << /Type /Pages /Kids [6 0 R ] /Count 1 /Resources << /ProcSet 4 0 R /Font << /F1 8 0 R /F2 9 0 R /F3 10 0 R >> >> /MediaBox [0.000 0.000 612.000 792.000] >> endobj 4 0 obj [/PDF /Text ] endobj 5 0 obj << /Producer (ž˙dompdf 1.0.2 + CPDF) /CreationDate (D:20241122085221+00'00') /ModDate (D:20241122085221+00'00') >> endobj 6 0 obj << /Type /Page /MediaBox [0.000 0.000 612.000 792.000] /Parent 3 0 R /Annots [ 11 0 R ] /Contents 7 0 R >> endobj 7 0 obj << /Length 2055 >> stream 0.000 0.000 0.000 rg BT 0.000 698.278 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(His paintings make us see the world the way he sees it, clear and up close, with all but the most essential details)] TJ ET BT 0.000 683.626 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(pared away.)] TJ ET BT 0.000 668.974 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(By Calvin Tomkins)] TJ ET BT 30.000 630.322 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(At Cooper, I went from someone who was basically incompetent to being the best painter in the school.)] TJ ET BT 30.000 615.670 Td /F2 12.0 Tf [(Alex Katz)] TJ ET BT 0.000 589.018 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(It took him ten years to find his way. Living in cheap downtown lofts, supporting himself by working for a frame-)] TJ ET BT 0.000 574.366 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(maker three days a week, he experimented with small paintings—New York street scenes, Maine landscapes, still-)] TJ ET BT 0.000 559.714 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(lifes, and figure paintings adapted from amateur family photographs. He wanted to paint in an open style, like)] TJ ET BT 0.000 545.062 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(Jackson Pollock, with no fixed outlines or contained forms, “but I didn’t know how to do it,” he said. “I destroyed a)] TJ ET BT 0.000 530.410 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(thousand paintings, just tore them up and threw them in the fireplace.” In the mid-fifties, he switched to small cut-)] TJ ET BT 0.000 515.758 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(paper collages that were clearly influenced by Matisse’s late work. For a three-month period in 1957, his self-)] TJ ET BT 0.000 501.106 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(confidence faltered. “I kept making paintings, and they were good, but they were boring,” he said. “It was the only)] TJ ET BT 0.000 486.454 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(time in my life when a thing like that happened.” What pulled him out of it was deciding to paint what he called)] TJ ET BT 0.000 471.802 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(“specific” portraits, recognizable images of real people—a decision that coincided with meeting Ada Del Moro.)] TJ ET 0.000 0.000 0.800 rg BT 0.000 445.150 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(Read more)] TJ ET 0.000 0.000 0.800 RG 0.6 w 0 J [ ] 0 d 0.000 442.540 m 59.352 442.540 l S endstream endobj 8 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /Name /F1 /BaseFont /Helvetica /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding >> endobj 9 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /Name /F2 /BaseFont /Helvetica-Oblique /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding >> endobj 10 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /Name /F3 /BaseFont /Times-Roman /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding >> endobj 11 0 obj << /Type /Annot /Subtype /Link /A 12 0 R /Border [0 0 0] /H /I /Rect [ 0.0000 444.0404 59.3520 456.2504 ] >> endobj 12 0 obj << /Type /Action /S /URI /URI (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/alex-katzs-life-in-art?utm_source=Breakfast+with+ARTnews) >> endobj xref 0 13 0000000000 65535 f 0000000009 00000 n 0000000074 00000 n 0000000120 00000 n 0000000295 00000 n 0000000324 00000 n 0000000473 00000 n 0000000595 00000 n 0000002702 00000 n 0000002809 00000 n 0000002924 00000 n 0000003034 00000 n 0000003159 00000 n trailer << /Size 13 /Root 1 0 R /Info 5 0 R /ID[<74e97c1b2e0f62cf2e4c3c7d4c4bebf9><74e97c1b2e0f62cf2e4c3c7d4c4bebf9>] >> startxref 3313 %%EOF