Happy birthday to #AliceNeel. Alice Neel painted people as they were, not as they wished to be seen. Her portraits are intimate, unfiltered, and psychologically precise, giving space to vulnerability, tension, and contradiction. At a time when women were expected to soften reality, Neel insisted on truth. She painted herself, her community, her lovers, and her city without idealization. Neel did not search for beauty. She searched for presence. #WomenInArt #ArtHerstory #PortraitPainting #KnowHer