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tion in Katz’s paintings is that there is nomelancholy
in them. He himself points out that his work speaks
about the present time, since it is his way of living, al-
ways in the present. “There is no narrative, there is no
past. Nothing of what we see in it will vanish.”
A recurring character in the artwork of this
remarkable artist is his model Ada, his inspiring
muse and wife, who has become an absolute icon
in his work. An example of this are Blue Umbrella
#2 (1972), Orange Hat (1990), Ada With Sunglasses
(1990), Brisk Day (1990) and other works in which
the painter alludes to the fashion trends of the last
decades. The truth is that with a handkerchief or
a hat, Ada’s intimacy is part of art’s history in the
second half of the XX century. “That was always my
intention, from the beginning, to make universal
something as negligible as my intimacy.”
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