Alex Katz 亚历克斯·卡茨 Christy《克里斯蒂》, 2010

In Christy (2010), Alex Katz explores the subtleties of human facial expressions, as indicated by a faraway gaze, an enigmatic smile or the arch of an eyebrow. This is intensified through the close cropping and cinematic lighting of the portrait, in which the woman’s face fills the pictorial space, framed by her dark hair and the black background. Katz’s subject is the American supermodel Christy Turlington, who first came to fame in the early 1990s and also appears in his seminal Black Dress series. The artist’s minimal aesthetic and the pristine flatness of his painted surfaces anticipated Pop art, but he considers himself instead a painter of the ‘immediate present’.

在《克里斯蒂》（Christy）（2010年）中，亚历克斯·卡茨探索了人类面部表情的微妙 之处，如一个远眺的目光、一个神秘的微笑或一道扬起的眉毛。艺术家透过剪裁肖像 和充满电影感的灯光投射加强了这一点，令女人的脸占据整个画面，被她的黑发和黑 色背景包围。卡茨这次的主题是美国超模克莉丝蒂·杜灵顿（Christy Turlington），她 于90年代初冒起，亦曾经出现在他开创性的《黑裙》（Black Dress）系列。这位艺术家 的极简美学及绘画表面纯朴的的扁平性，令人联想起后来的波普艺术，但他反而视自 己为 “存在于当前” 的画家。