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Portraitist Alice Neel has said that "Art is not as stupid as human conversation," and, in the case of her paintings, she is right. The paintings now on display at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass. give visitors a more direct line of communication to Neel than speech can provide. The show is a sort of limited retrospective of the painter's work and a centennial celebration of her birth on Jan. 28, 1900. The Addison is the third host to the exhibit, put together by the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Ann Temkin...
...show assembles pieces from all points in Neel's career, featuring prominently her better-known later portraits. But it is the inclusion of lesser-known works, several of which have never before been publicly displayed, which makes the exhibit a treat and an invigorating experience. Too frequently, exhibitions provide an incomplete or edited vision of an artist's work. Those shows that do give a more inclusive view of a career often fail to demonstrate the evolution of the artist. Perhaps the greatest success of the Neel show is that it navigates a smoothly constructed and insightful walk through...
...Neel's paintings is to see her life. Arguably, this can be said of any artist, but in Neel's case, it is doubly true. Neel's commitment to representing the figure, even when abstraction was the trend, led her to paint the people around her. Family, friends, lovers, artists and writers all appear and reappear with near-brutal honesty, often stripped literally and figuratively, down to their bare skin and most essential character. It is this ability of Neel's to completely reveal her subjects which makes her work stunning. Appropriately, her "Self-Portrait" (1980) awaits visitors...
...exhibit of ALICE NEEL's vibrant portraits organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art opens today at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Call (978) 749-4027 for more information...
...addition to Chagnon and Neel, another scientific heavyweight--French anthropologist Jacques Lizot, who lived among the Yanomami for 25 years--is targeted by Tierney. He describes Lizot as keeping a virtual harem of Yanomami boys and exchanging gifts for sexual favors...