Alice Neel

The American artist Alice Neel devoted the majority of her life to figurative art. While abstract expressionism flourished on the American art scene, Alice Neel chose to stick firmly to her own artistic idiom. Her colourful portrait paintings with their distinctive outlines are as much concerned with individuals as with social, cultural and political divisions within society. The key to Neel?s creative work was her conviction of the unique and powerful meeting between the artist and the model. Although she became well known for her painted portraits especially of people such as Andy Warhol, photographer Samuel Brody and art critic John Perreault, her works on paper are virtually unknown to the general public. 0Exhibition: Nordiska akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden (26.05-08.09.2013).