Alice nell biography
Alice nell biography
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Alice Neel
American visual artist (–)
For the film, see Alice Neel (film).
Alice Neel (January 28, – October 13, ) was an American visual artist.
Recognized for her paintings of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers, Neel is considered one of the greatest American portraitists of the 20th century.[1][2][3] Her career spanned from the s to s.[4]
Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity.
She pursued a career as a figurative painter during a period when abstraction was favored, and she did not begin to gain critical praise for her work until the s.[1] Her work contradicts and challenges the traditional and objectified nude depictions of women by her male predecessors.[5] This is done by depicting women through a female gaze, illustrating them as being consciously aware of the objectification by men and the demoralizing effects of the m