ART, CULTURE & ZEITGEIST DOCUMENTARIES
The art journal Monopol writes in its “11 Art Films Worth Watching in November” about Frauke Schlieckau’s documentary “The Painter Alice Neel. Faces of America”: “The film is a sensitive approach to a chronicler of her time and an appreciation of her (late-discovered) art.” You can find the full Monopol article, here.
The painter Alice Neel: Faces of America”, to be seen in the Arte Media Library, until 6 January 2023.
With unusual psychological and artistic brilliance, Alice Neel (1900-1984) painted the most interesting subject she could imagine: People. Like many great artists of her time, she was mostly not very successful during her lifetime, and even after her death she was not duly recognized for a long time. Today she is one of the most important artists in America. For Neel’s entire oeuvre is an expression of the deepest humanity. In her paintings, the American captured souls and used socially relevant themes. But why did she paint portraits almost exclusively, and what made the genre so appealing? How did the American artist manage to capture people’s souls in her portraits? And what do Neel’s portraits and self-portraits reveal about the time in which she lived and about her own artistic soul? Written / directed by Frauke Schlieckau. A Lona Media production.