Alice Neel is straightforward.
Like an undiluted emotion that we receive in the face, seized by its truth, its urgent need to depict its world, its time, its values.
Alice Neel is a woman who looks at life as it is, naked bodies without artifice, the most incongruous couples united by an intimate gesture, sketched from life like a landscape of which they would be the trees, the streams, animals.
Alice Neel (1900-1984) is an extraordinary painter of the New York of intellectuals, activists and the poor, who outlines her characters in hard blue and thus gives them an aura, a royal dignity.
Even when she unveiled Andy Warhol's monstrous, scarred chest and sheathed belly in 1970,
Alice Neel, painter without fear or reproach, is for many a discovery, not to say...
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