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Alice Neel

...... Neel overcame her depression and mental illness, and when she was finally released from the hospital, she began painting in great quantity again, and eventually, her work became more well known. One critic notes of her style, "Economy of means is Neel's trademark. Working in an expressionist manner, the artist reveals with strong touches of heavily stroked-on paint and willful distortions of forceful line the interior functionings of the men and women before her" (Nemser 97). The painting below is called "Still Life, Havana," and Neel painted it in 1926. It is an oil on canvas, and is 26 x 20 inches. It is one of the relatively few non-portraits in her most known collection, and it illustrated her early artistic period, when she was married, had her first child, and lived in Havana. Later works are much less formal, and much more impressionistic. The details in this work makes it extremely impressive, and shows a different element of Neel's work, it also shows how she matured as a painter as she grew older and gained more experience. This painting seems almost like a copy of an old master's work, and it seems much more self-conscious than her late