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Alec Soth Pictures for Dreaming

Alice Neel

came to art via painting. I made sloppy abstract paintings because it was all I could do. At the time, I was focused on the Abstract Expressionists and didn’t even know the work of figurative painters such as Alice Neel. If I’d discovered her portraits back then, maybe I would’ve continued

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