Uptown” at David Zwirner Gallery, encompassing five decades of her creative career, is a worthy survey of her neighborhoods. The Estate of Alice Neel.Ĭurated by Hilton Als, Neel’s retrospective “Alice Neel. All images courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London, Victoria Miro, London, and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Neither too realistic nor fully Expressionist, her works serve both as ethnographic investigations of the milieu and as diary-like accounts of personal encounters and relationships. Her paintings acutely capture marginalized residents of upper Manhattan. In contrast to Abstract Expressionism and the Conceptual Art movements popular in the mid-twentieth-century, Neel remained devoted to figurative painting. 1900, Menon Square, Pennsylvania-1984, New York City) once noted, “If I hadn’t been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.” With intense, feverish coloration reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh’s peasant paintings, Neel’s portraits are conspicuously anachronic. “Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls.” Alice Neel (b.
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