Her commitment to truth and dedication to figuration — unfashionable during her lifetime — ensured that her work remained
permanently out of kilter with avant - garde movements such as abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism.
Neel's dedication to the «unfashionable» art of portrait painting and social realism — and this during the decades of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism — ensured that her work remained
permanently out of kilter with avant - garde artistic developments.