This is the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Arts, in Lausanne,and juxtaposes the work of two painters which at first sight have nothing in common: one wasFranco-Swiss and died in 1925; the other is American, was born in 1927, and is still active.
\nAlex Katz is an important figure in late twentieth-century American painting. His resolutelyfigurative work concentrates on classic subjects, such as individual or group portraits, naturalor urban landscapes and still lifes with flowers. He was linked to pop art in the early 1960s onaccount of his extremely neutral technique which resembled that found in advertising and infilm shots. Preferring a smooth, textureless painting technique, often working on a monumentalscale and building the composition by simplifying forms and picture planes and relying ona restricted palette, Katz has unconsciously taken over where Vallotton left off, extending thelatter’s work to the borders of abstraction. Indeed, F\u00e9lix Vallotton never “inspired” Alex Katzsince the American painter is actually not very familiar with Vallotton’s work. Even so, it is nothard to find some surprising similarities between the two artists, both having the same aim: toexalt through painting.<\/p>\n
Bernard Fibicher<\/strong> is an art historian and Director of the the Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Arts,Lausanne. This is the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Arts, in Lausanne,and juxtaposes the work of two painters which at first sight have nothing in common: one wasFranco-Swiss and died in 1925; the other is American, was born in 1927, and is still active. Alex Katz is an important figure in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8630,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[53,59],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8654","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-contemporary-art","7":"product_cat-modern-art","8":"disponibilita-no","9":"description-off","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nÉric de Chassey<\/strong> is a French art historian, exhibition curator, critic, and professor of contemporaryart at the Fran\u00e7ois-Rabelais University of Tours. He is the Director of the Acad\u00e9mie deFrance in Rome – Villa Medici.
\nCatherine Lepdor<\/strong> is a curator at the Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.
\nCamille L\u00e9v\u00eaque-Claudet<\/strong> is an art historian and a curator at the Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"