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(5 pp) Alice Neel's daring, endearing, disturbing
portraits of people and places are among the great
treasures of 20th-century art. A retrospective of
her work opened in June of this year (2000) at the
Whitney Museum in New York. Seventy paintings and
an important body of works on paper, celebrates
the centennial of her birth.
Her 1980 Self-portrait is discussed.
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Seventy paintings and an important body of works on paper celebrates the centennial of her birth. Portraits Throughout her long career, Neel remained consistent in her ambition to
represent a vast array of human subjects, including friends and neighbors in Greenwich Village and Spanish Harlem, artists and writers, mothers and children, family members and political figures.
Passion The street scenes, portraits, still lifes and nudes that she painted in the 1930s reveal a passionate interest in human individuality and variety as well as an daring defiance
of convention, and established qualities that defined her vision over five decades. Personality According to Neels Whitney Museum press release, Self-portrait, 1980 is the entry, or headline piece for this
show, and like many of Neels portraits is outrageous and wonderful at the same time. Somehow the longer you look at it, you can only smile and hope you
have the courage, and even audacity to pose nude at age 80. Technically it is composed of tonal and lineal contrasts: cool colors - blues and greens contrast with the
yellows and red-orange overlays of the skin color. The round lines of the human form contrast with the lines in the chair design as well as the chair legs
and the paintbrush she holds. Small touches of red in her face and in the shadows of her neck and legs, punch up the contrast of the wide space
of green that is the floor. The formality of the striped chair first seems to contrast, and then complements the cushion-aspect of her body. The same might be
said about the contrast of a pinned in place hair do, with an unfettered body. Look carefully and see if you can note the painters attitude , about herself, and
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