Born in 1900 in Pennsylvania, Alice Neel will paint in the 1930s strikers,
rioters, blacks, Latinos, feminists, union and communist leaders, naked men withexposed sex, homosexuals displayed and artists since the portrait will be one ofhis favorite ways. ---- A line of painful realism, a blur whose contours andcolors evoke Egon Schiele. Suffice to say that the official recognition will belate, the FBI placing it under surveillance in the 50s. She definitely comes outof the closet with her portrait of the feminist Kate Millet which will make thecover of Time Magazine. The incredible political modernity of his work brutallycalls into question the Franchouillard claim of a translation of post-modernParisians towards the American intelligentsia in the post-war period from whichintersectionality would have returned to us.The other huge political question is the tremendous creativity granted to theAmerican Communists by Stalin. Because at the same time that across the Atlanticsexuality is displayed freely abounding, in the USSR and under the aegis of allthe PCs of the planet, a suffocating and criminal “ proletarian ” moralitydescends. A tension that is only apparent at the turn of a small card under aportrait of an activist who complains to Alice Neel about the head of thecultural section of the American CP. The latter berates the militant on thegrounds that to love Debussy would be reactionary. To which the tornado Neelreplies timidly: “ I think we should have a little freedom ” !Jean-Yves (UCL Limousin)Alice Neel, A Committed Look, Center Pompidou, Paris, until January 16, 2023. https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Expo-Alice-Neel-un-regard-engage_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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