Centre Pompidou – First Alice Neel Retrospective in France
An Engaged Eye
Alice Neel loved to paint people who had been rendered socially invisible. With her »engaged eye« , she roamed New York and captured their stories in portraits. The Centre Pompidou is now showing her life's work in France for the first time, starting October 5.
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The important U.S. artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) searched her environment with an »engaged eye« before deciding on a subject. With her portraits, the figurative painter moved between politics and art - she had communist leanings, which is why, seeking truth, she had a preference for depicting socially disadvantaged people. Thus, she gradually captured on canvas migrants from Latin America, African-American writers who were excluded from the intellectual elite, single parents or homosexual couples.
Starting October 5, the Centre Pompidou is dedicating a retrospective to this »engaged eye« - it is the artist's first solo exhibition in France. Under the programmatic title Alice Neel, An Engaged Eye, the museum is showing some 60 paintings, drawings and documents, ranging from her first works in the late 1920s to her last paintings shortly before her death. The first French-language catalog on Alice Neel, with essays, explanations, quotations, and illustrations, completes the exhibition. It will end on January 2, 2023.
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