Alice Neel: Portraits of an Era
| Autor: | Henry R. Hope |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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| Zdroj: | Art Journal. 38:273-281 |
| ISSN: | 2325-5307 0004-3249 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00043249.1979.10793517 |
| Popis: | The discovery of Alice Neel's portraits in the 1960s was something of a revelation, especially to those who had shrugged off that genre as mostly abandoned to photography and to commercial artists, who make a lucrative business of producing flattering likenesses. A portrait by Neel is emphatically not that. “So you're going to be painted by Alice Neel,” said one of her well-known subjects. “Well, don't expect to be flattered!” Neel herself would not wholly agree with that warning. Repeatedly she has proclaimed that she only seeks truth. But her search for truth penetrates masks of vanity and pride. When Alice Neel looks at her subject (some would say victim) she ignores the image that most of us believe we see in the looking glass. She sees something else—not necessarily ugliness nor hypocrisy, but at times hidden secrets, idiosyncrasies, vulnerabilities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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