| The son of Russian immigrants, Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927 in
Brooklyn, New York and raised in Queens in a liberal, Bohemian
setting. He is a figure
painter of realistic portraits of friends and family, and his figures
are usually relaxed
close-ups from a frontal perspective and appear in a flattened
manner. With his artwork, he strives to convey the feeling
that it is good
to be alive. It has been said that his style highly influenced
the
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