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Alice Neel
Portret van het moderne leven
ISBN: 9789462301368
(HB - NL)
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This insightful catalogue examines anew the full range of Alice Neel's celebrated paintings of people, still life and cityscapes. Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other artists, such as Van Gogh and Cézanne, all of which provided an important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her figurative works. Renowned for her visual acuity and psychological depth, Neel's portraits and nude paintings of friends, family, strangers, and prominent cultural figures alike convey an incredibly consistent intimacy regardless of the relationship to her subject.
The accompanying essays trace the trajectory of Neel's artistic language as it evolved alongside contemporaneous trends in the New York City art world and examines the manner in which her own work figured into the social and cultural contexts of her time. Working over a sixty year period, Neel's oeuvre offers a remarkably expressive document of the specific milieus she navigated through and ultimately transcends the marker of time altogether.
Tentoonstellingen:
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (June 2016-October 2016)
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands (November 2016-February 2017)
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France (March 2017-September)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg (October 2017-January 2018)
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