I like her because she uses line and exaggeration, the caricaturist's method of accentuating individuality to distinguish each human from the next. To me, line does this better than form, and it has more energy. Neal has her own language and isn't trying to copy a photo so I give her points for that. I'm in favor of as many styles of realism as there are artists out there with a creative vision.
To tell you the truth, this is giving me the urge to paint a big caricature of myself, though a nude would be very unlikely indeed.
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