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| Artist's Name: | Alice Neel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1900 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | US | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | Havanna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alice Neel - Profile |
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| Influential 20th century American painter Alice Neel , 1900-1984, is best known for her portraits of celebrated artists and writers from New York, including Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, Meyer Shapiro and Linda Nochlin. Neel reinvigorated the traditions of portraiture at a time when the predominance of abstract art and the male white painter went largely unchallenged. Her portraits stand out for their psychological insight as much as for their vivid sense of colour and animated brushwork. As well as famous subjects Neel was equally interested in those marginal to mainstream society from Harlem's immigrant communities to children and the elderly. Concentrating on her work as a portraitist, the exhibition is structured thematically in a way that mirrors the artist's way of thinking: the Allegory, the Essential Portrait, the Psychological Portrait, Portraits from Memory, Parents and Children, Nudes, the Detached Gaze and Old Age. A focused selection of cityscapes alongside the concentration on the human form manifests not only Neel's attachment to the city of New York but her own predicament as a woman artist confined to the domestic environment. (Whitechapel Art Gallery) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Alice Neel |
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artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Alice Neel |
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Galleries representing
Aurel Scheibler, Office |
Collections representing
David Winton Bell Gallery |
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