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29 apr 2024 · Lucian Freud, British artist known for his work in portraiture and the nude. Sometimes called a realist, he painted in a highly individual style, which in his later years was characterized by impasto. He often rendered the human figure in a realist manner and imbued it with an evocative psychological intensity.
Lucian Michael Freud OM CH [1] ( / frɔɪd /; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud.
20 lug 2011 · Lucian Freud, renowned for his unflinching observations of anatomy and psychology, made even the beautiful people (including Kate Moss) look ugly. One of the late twentieth-century's most celebrated portraitists, Freud painted only those closest to him: friends and family, wives and mistresses, and, last but not least, himself.
- British
- December 8, 1922
- Berlin, Germany
- July 20, 2011
21 ott 2019 · He is one of art’s most influential portraitists. Lucian Freud (1922–2011) changed how we look at people. He filled his canvases with bodies rarely given space elsewhere: fat bodies, ageing bodies, queer bodies, exhausted bodies.
5 ott 2019 · By Farah Nayeri. Oct. 5, 2019. LONDON — In 1993, the British painter Lucian Freud, who had just turned 70, took on one of the boldest projects of his career: producing a full-length portrait of...
11 ago 2011 · Freud's focus on the personality and humanity of his sitters is seen in the fact that he referred to his nudes as 'naked portraits', thus highlighting their psychological depth. His portraits are not concerned with flattery or sentimentality: they are revealing, intense and sometimes uncomfortable to look at.
7 ott 2020 · Lucian Freud. (Photo By DAVID DAWSON/ BRIDGEMAN IMAGES) In the early 1970s, Lucian Freud’s most important model was Jacquetta Eliot, then the wife of the Earl of St Germans. She and the painter were conducting a passionate affair. Freud wanted a child with her and encouraged her to stop using contraception. In 1971, Freddy Eliot was duly born.
