Artist Alice Neel, a collector of souls

While the art world was celebrating abstract expressionism and other avant-garde movements, American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) captured humanity in her radical figurative paintings that revealed the complexity and dignity of her often-overlooked subjects. Correspondent Faith Salie visits an exhibit of Neel's work, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, that spotlights the artist's humanism.
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[@rubyredd6366]

So refreshing how she she painted in obscurity capturimg life, pain, an hardships while producing master pieces. Beautiful!

[@babybro70]

This is what makes Art great

[@shaunspins]

It is about time Alice Neel is on TV. Always has been a favorite artist of mine.

[@hetmanjz]

Have you seen her appearance on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1984 (soon before she died)? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqCzZJSEipmgbsU

[@shaunspins]

@@hetmanjz thank you fir the link

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[@romstar]

Wow 🤩 such a wonderful artist! 🖼 Siting for her must have been an honor.👍😘🙏

[@Nancy-pf6ft]

Fascinating and wonderful

[@daverizz]

Love this lady's work. BTW, "The Philadelphia School for Women" converted over the be Moore College of Art & Design in 1932. It's right down the street from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and across the street from the Barnes Foundation.

[@ericmarin6454]

I think she had to take a dump 2

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@@ericmarin6454 Nasty and uncalled for.

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[@julierogers1155]

LOVE the art of Alice Neel.

[@hayleyanna2625]

I adore Alice Neal. She was the real deal.(⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

[@amymalina5073]

I just finished the Hoban biography and saw the Met exhibit which totally captivated me. Alice Neel is one of my favorite artists, period. I wish they would just call her a great artist not just a great woman artist. I worked for Ray Eames for several years in the old Eames Office in Venice, Ca, after Charles Eames had died. I just realized that Neel reminds me a bit of Ray Eames. Their voices as well as the spirit, the fierceness, the take no prisoners, no suffering of fools…..

[@t8nto]

At 21, Alice enrolled in a school of Art for women. She moved too Spanish Harlem during the Great Depression and made paintings dedicated to the people in her neighborhood. She was good at catching people’s emotions and how they were feeling overall.

[@MattSezer]

Why in the world would CBS air this the week the exhibition is closing?

[@1755ma]

Better late than never. Although you are quite right an early heads-up would have afforded someone the opportunity for multiple visits

[@uca7681]

It's in San Francisco's De Young museum.

[@christineboone2850]

❤️❤️❤️

[@vonBottorff]

She was like Georg Grosz. She saw the harshness, emptiness, the despair of industrialized, class-based, modern society, but only mirrored it as an anxious hopelessness and disappointment. Which many would interpret as decadent nihilist. Back then this was defiant effrontery to the supposed oppressors. But today where are the oppressors? The evil has become far too diffuse, hidden. Who, what do we rebel against today?

[@sharksport01]

Her work is/was hardly radical. There is a good interview with her on Johnny Carsons show here on youtube. It will explain her much more than the art degree robots on this video can.

[@kooale]

O F U

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[@DMEseter]

Art is so dope but those dealers and gallery owners are so pretentious and goofy

[@ericmarin6454]

I think she had a take a dump