Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of descent and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Her statute depicts women through a female gaze, illustrating them as physical consciously au fait of the objectification by men and the demoralizing effects of the male gaze. Her ham it up contradicts and challenges the usual and objectified nude depictions of women by her male predecessors. Neel was called “one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century” by Barry Walker, curator of futuristic and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which organized a retrospective of her exploit in 2010.
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