Not exact matches
Hallmarked at once by expressionism and realism, Alice Neel's œuvre translates the paradoxical
personality of its maker, who wanted to
paint individuals from all social classes and create a visual history of her time — a Comédie Humaine.
Visually, this is demonstrated by creating
paintings that share similar compositional elements but remain unique as
individual paintings with their own
personalities.
His crayon drawings, which respond to the
paintings, in particular, are portraits in the form of hairdos, each one expressing a distinct visual
personality rather than a representation of a particular
individual.
Hand in hand with this discovery of external reality (which was to culminate in the establishment of landscape
painting and still life
painting as genres in their own right) goes an increased interest in human
personality: more and more the artist sees himself as a unique
individual.
She views each
painting as an autobiographical, psychological self portrait: each
individual Myers
paints has helped to shape her
personality, define a little bit of who she is.