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**Alice Neel (1900–1984)
-USA
Alice Neel painted people as whole beings mess, biography, tenderness, and stubborn humanity and she did not spare her subjects flattering varnish.
Her portraits are exercises in psychological intimacy: the sitter’s posture, milieu, and facial expression combine to tell a lived story rather than an idealized snapshot.
When Neel painted nude or semi-nude men, she emphasized the unfiltered truth of their existence the fatigue in a shoulder, the slack of skin, the gaze that has seen too much or is learning to look anew.
Her brushstrokes carry warmth and urgency, and she always leaves traces of the artist’s presence: revision, underdrawing, and ruinous honesty. To make a Neel-like portrait is to accept vulnerability as the central subject.
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:- Rojitha Yasaswin
2025 - August - 12