Alex Katz (b. 1927)

"The more obvious example of undercutting is seen in the ostensibly simple Yellow House of 1982. Here we question why the house has been approached from this angle. The lighter brushstrokes draw the eye upward. The little leaves seem to have a life of their own. They are like fish, swimming upward, into the light. The quantity of green seems to suggest a hugeness and solidity, but it is more than a detailed version of a bush or cluster of bushes that grows outside a house. It makes us stop thinking vaguely of that which we call 'nature' and think, instead, of its specifics. "

(A.Beattie, Alex Katz by Ann Beattie, New York, 1976, p. 69.)