Black Draftee (James Hunter)
Contemporary Realism
1965
176.0 x 126.0 cm
爱丽丝·尼尔(1900 – 1984)
Alice Neel (1900-1984):探索这位标志性美国肖像画家的赤诚真实与情感深度。领略她充满力量且极具表现力的绘画作品!
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.
关于此作品
- 标题: Black Draftee (James Hunter)
- 艺术家: 爱丽丝·尼尔
- 年份: 1965
- 原尺寸: 176.0 x 126.0 cm
- 格式: Portrait
- 版权状态: 版权保护中
- 语料上下文: unfinished narrative" , expanding artist corpus"
- 配色方案: Neutrals
- 主色调: Putty
- 关键词: “abstract expressionism” , ink and charcoal drawing , american portraiture