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Lucian Freud stated that “my idea of portraiture came from dissatisfaction with portraits that resembled people. I would wish my portraits to be of people, not like them.” Such a confession denotes a certain amount of philosophical anguish as it presupposes that the artist, when painting somebody, is to an extent condemning them.
15 de ene. de 2020 · “Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits” charts the artistic development of the renowned British figurative painter through the unique lens of self-portraiture. Best known for his portraits of his acquaintances, Lucian Freud (1922–2011) painted his subjects with compositional ingenuity, technical virtuosity, and a critical eye, and was no less rigorous when depicting himself.
1 de jul. de 2012 · Lucian Freud is widely considered the greatest portrait painter of the twentieth century. His visceral renderings of people from all walks of life have a painterly and psychological drama that is unparalleled in contemporary art. For much of a century—from the late 1940s until his recent death in July 2011—Freud made the living human presence his subject.
On 26 July 1981, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza paid his first visit to the London studio of the painter Lucian Freud, near Notting Hill Gate, for the first of the long, endless sittings for the present portrait, which was completed in October 1982. This would be the start of a close and lasting relationship between painter and ...
LUCIAN FREUD : Portraits. «Il lui en aura fallu du temps pour abandonner son afféterie, son dandysme, son arrogance dont la mélancolie ou l’ironie ne trompe personne. Et il lui en aura fallu du temps pour que sa peinture, par le choix d’une brosse dure dans les années 50 et d’un blanc d’argent dans les années 80, finisse par forcer ...
Lucian Freud was one of the world’s greatest realist painters. This new, authoritative survey of Freud’s portraits and figure paintings explores his work across seven decades, from the early 1940s to his death in 2011. The book features over 130 paintings, drawings and etchings selected in close collaboration with the artist.
4 de jun. de 2023 · Des portraits plus vivants que vivants. Lucian Freud, dates clés. 1922 Né à Berlin, il émigre à Londres en 1934 avec ses parents qui fuient la montée du nazisme en Allemagne. Fils d’architecte, il est aussi le petit-fils du célèbre psychanalyste Sigmund Freud. 1945 Il se lie avec Francis Bacon, fidèle ami jusque dans les années 1970.
