Friday 7 July 2017

Review of Alice Neel, Uptown at Victoria Miro

07/07/17
Alice Neel, Uptown
Curated by Hilton Als
Victoria Miro, London
18 May – 29 July 2017


“No matter what adventure we have, man is the catalyst … Man is everything.” For Alice Neel (1900-84), born at the start of the new century, her conviction and dedication to analysing and capturing the essence of the individual in a figurative style endured throughout an era of proliferating abstraction. Despite regularly mixing with avant-garde writers and activists, and sharing their political ideas, she didn’t adopt their styles. She ignored the critic Clement Greenberg’s comment that figurative painting was dead and radically proved him wrong, becoming the first living American artist to have a major retrospective in Moscow in 1981.



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