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StatistiquesBlack Draftee (James Hunter)
Contemporary Realism
1965
176.0 x 126.0 cm
Alice Neel (1900 – 1984)
Alice Neel (1900-1984) : Découvrez la portraitiste américaine audacieuse aux représentations honnêtes et expressives de l'âme humaine ! Ses œuvres puissantes révèlent des vérités intimes.
Neel’s portraits reflect the different communities of Manhattan, where she lived and worked, as well as her strong left-wing social consciousness. In 1965, the year Lyndon B. Johnson decided on a radical increase of ground forces in South Vietnam, Neel met James Hunter by chance and asked him to sit for a portrait. The young man had just been drafted for the Vietnam War and was scheduled to leave within a week. Following her usual practice, Neel started to outline the body directly on the canvas and then filled in parts of the head and hands. When Hunter did not return for their second sitting, Neel declared the work complete in its unfinished state by signing it on the back. The portrait was first shown at the retrospective of the artist’s work held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974.
À propos de cette œuvre
- Titre: Black Draftee (James Hunter)
- Artiste: Alice Neel
- Année: 1965
- Dimensions originales: 176.0 x 126.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Statut du droit d'auteur: Sous droit d'auteur
- Contexte du corpus: unfinished narrative" , vietnam war reflection"
- Couleur dominante: Putty
- Mots-clés: black draftee artwork , “contemplative portrait” , “unfinished artwork”
- Nuance de couleur: Ochre to Sepia