Alice Neel.WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture, and Canadian art and architecture. The Colonial PeriodIn the 17th cent. the North American colonies enjoyed neither the wealth nor the leisure to cultivate the fine arts extensively. For much of her life, Alice Neel was an obscure figurative painter. She worked for the WPA during the Depression, but Expressionism expressionism, term used to describe works of art and literature in which the representation of reality is distorted to communicate an inner vision. The expressionist transforms nature rather than imitates it. In ArtIn painting and the graphic arts, certain movements such as the Brücke (1905), Blaue Reiter (1911), and new objectivity (1920s) are described as expressionist.">Abstract Expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school. It was the first important school in American painting to declare its independence from European styles and to influence the development of art abroad. Arshile Gorky first gave impetus to the movement. drove her underground; then, in the '60s, when she was in her sixties, she blossomed into celebrity. Now comes a full-career retrospective, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, established in 1875, chartered in 1876. When the city of Philadelphia planned to erect a building to house the Centennial Exposition of 1876, provision was made to keep the building permanently occupied; the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art was privately established for that purpose. Its name was changed in 1929 to the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, and the present name was adopted in 1938.. "There's something about history," remarks curator Ann Temkin: "Every time women act up, it's treated as the first time. The feminist eruptions get forgotten. But Alice, in the '30s, decided she could be a woman painter, and the audacity of those works--they're as fresh as anything." June 29--Sept. 1; travels to Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy Phillips Academy, at Andover, Mass.; college preparatory boarding and day school; opened 1778, chartered 1780 by Samuel Phillips. Founded for boys, it is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States and has served as the model for many later schools. In 1972 the academy became coeducational when Abbot Academy, a neighboring girls' school, was incorporated. The school is often called Andover or Phillips Andover., Andover, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. |
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