Em 1923, Dr. Albert Barnes introduced his collection of modern European art to Philadelphia with an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
coisas várias, artes (plásticas, fotográficas e comestíveis), escritos, promoções e embirrações
quarta-feira, 7 de outubro de 2026
Alice Neel , Soutine e Alfred Barnes em 1923. Munch, a touch of Expressionism (12)
segunda-feira, 21 de setembro de 2026
2026, Alice Neel em "The American Century. Art & Culture (1950-2000)", Whitney (11)
I. Qual é o lugar da Alice Neel na arte do séc. XX - na arte norte-americana e em geral?
2026, Alice Neel, "The American Century" Parte II, a vaga dos realismos nos anos 60-70 (10)
II. Alice Neel, em "The American Century" Parte II, Whitney Museum 1999, é primeiro associada à vaga do "expressionismo figurativo" de meados de 1950, depois ao cinema Beat de Robert Frank e Alfred Leslie, de 1959, e volta a comparecer nos anos 1970 numa nova conjuntura de "retorno" à figura.
NA exposição anual do Whitney de 1972, "The Family (John Gruen, Jane Wilson and Julia)" de 1970
quarta-feira, 16 de setembro de 2026
ALICE NEEL E A BEAT GENERATION "Pull My Daisy" e Allen Ginsberg (9)
ALICE NEEL E A BEAT GENERATION
sexta-feira, 11 de setembro de 2026
Alice Nell, Whiyney 1974 (8)
Ao convite para participar na exposição anual do Whitney seguiu-se em 1974 a primeira retrospectiva no museu de Nova Iorque: incluiu 58 pinturas desde 1933 apenas retratos, contando com muitas das suas obras hoje mais famosas, e vários retratos de artistas:
Nadja and Nona, 33;T. B. Harlem, 40;Dead Father, 46;The Last Illness (a mãe), 53;Georgie Arce, 55;Randall in Extremis ( um guarda do MET), 59;James Hunter (Draffed Negro), 66;Red Grooms and Mimi Gross, 67 1º versão;Warhol, 70;Jack Curtis and Rita Red, 70;47 John Gruen Family ("The Family"), 1970;Duane Hansen, 71-72;John Perreault 72;Irene Paslikas (the Marxist Girl) 72;The Soyer Brothers, 73;Peter Kanuthia, 73.E cinco retratos de John Rothschild, "a longtime personal friend", de 1935 a 1959. https://archive.org/details/aliceneel00neel/page/n7/mode/2up
"Critics writing about Alice Neel seem more interested in her personality than in her paintings. They speak of her wit, her biting candor and her sharp intelligence, but not as manifested in her work. Yet it is precisely Neel's ability to tell something both of herself and her sitter that distinguishes her as a portraitist within the academic tradition. To a lesser extent than Gertrude Stein, though similarly. Neel's biographies are auto-biographical." (...)"Neel is prejudiced in favor of bohemianism. She's on the side of intellectuals, blacks, women and the poor: her resentment against upper and middle class values is implicit. Her pithy characterizations are almost too direct: she rarely flatters or conventionalizes her subjects. Neel's version of the truth is difficult to confront. Her technique complements her intentions.The immediacy and authenticity of her work derive from the draughtsmanlike quality of her technique.Frequently a deliberate line accents a painterly area to create a tension based on contrasts. The sitters sometimes reflect attitudes current in their contemporary literary and political thinking. Neel is touched by a glance, a beautiful profile, a cunning smile, a notorious personality and through these history is reflected."
ALICE NEEL: "Being born I looked around the world and its people terrified and fascinated me. I was attracted by the morbid and excessive, and everything connected with death had a dark power over me. I was early taken to Sunday school where the tale of Christ nailed to the cross would send me into violent weeping and I'd have to be taken home. Also I remember a film they showed at the church of the horrors of delirium tremens that quite unnerved me and prevented my sleeping for many nights.1 decided to paint a human comedy - such as Balzac had done in literature. In the 30's | painted the beat of those days - Joe Gould, Sam Putman, Ken Fearing, etc. I have painted "El Barrio" in Puerto Rican Harlem. I painted the neurotic, the mad and the miserable. Also I painted the others, including some squares. I once, many light years ago, married a Cuban and lived in Havana where I had my first show. Then all that dissolved and in the 30's I was on the W.P.A. turning in a painting every six weeks. I had a show at the Pinacotheca Gallery during the war and later two shows at the A.C.A. Gallery. I never knew how to push myself and still don't know how. Like Chichikov <Chekov> | am a collector of souls. Now some of my subjects are beginning to die and they have an historic nostalgia: everyone somehow seems better and more important when they are dead. If I could I would make the world happy: the wretched faces in the subway sad and full of troubles worry me. I also hate the conformity of today - everything put into its box.When I go to a show of modern work I feel that my world has been swept away - and yet I do not think it can be so that the human creature will be forever verboten. Thou shalt make no graven images <You shall not make a carved image - Exodus 20:4>. ...."
quarta-feira, 9 de setembro de 2026
Alice Neel década a década. Cronologias, em Serralves (7)
Alice Neel dizia que pintava o Zeigeist, o espírito do tempo. Argumentava que os seus retratos - as suas figuras - exibiam as marcas dos anos 50, 60, 70 e que elas eram também a sua verdade...
sexta-feira, 4 de setembro de 2026
ALICE NEEL, um grande espólio no mercado, o Estate e 3 grandes galerias (5)
Uma das pistas de abordagem das exposições internacionais de Alice Neel é a consideração da chegada da sua obra a três grandes galerias de topo, com base num grande espólio (o Estate) gerido pelos seus dois filhos, Richard e Hartley.
Alice Neel pintou muito desde os anos 40 e vendeu sempre muito pouco durante 55 anos (desde os anos 1930 até à morte em 1985 com a idade do século). Os seus modelos da Village e de Spanish Harlem - amigos, vizinhos e familiares -, depois os intelectuais e artistas de Manhattan que ela convencia a posarem para os seus retratos, não tinham meios para comprar os quadros (alguns ficaram-se por retratos desenhados, aliás de grande qualidade). Também não os oferecia, depois das quatro ou cinco sessões de pose necessárias. O retrato é sempre o género de menos sucesso comercial, quando não se trata de encomendas e de figuras mundanas - antes das suas parcerias com Basquiat, Warhol tornara-se um retratista mundano, nos anos 70, usando a sua equipa da Factory, o polaroid e a serigrafia, mas essa carreira foi em geral (bem) esquecida.





