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1 giorno fa · Lucian Freud, a renowned British painter, was known for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings. His work often contained naked portraits of friends, family, and acquaintances. Freud’s application of paint was lush and laden with texture, where every brushstroke conveyed the physicality and emotion of the subject.
11 ore fa · I have always loved the work of Lucien Freud, his portrait of John Minton has such a raw and beautiful honesty to it. ... Lucian Freud, John Minton. The sitters emotions are so beautifully, ...
3 giorni fa · This is how Lucian Freud’s Portrait of Rose (1978–9), the nude painting of his 19-year-old daughter, Rose Boyt, came to be. On the day Rose was born, Freud brought two live lobsters as a present.
11 ore fa · Who better to seek inspiration from than the National Gallery, who is celebrating its bicentenary by sending twelve remarkable pieces from its own collection to elsewhere in the country. Inspired by this, our exhibition seeks to do exactly the opposite, bringing twelve works from UK institutions to London. André Zlattinger.
3 giorni fa · In Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, through the diary and other accounts of sitting for him, naked or otherwise. Enthralled by his genius, it was only after his death that she began to question the version of events she had come to accept.
11 ore fa · Sotheby’s is hosting an exhibition in London this summer featuring 12 works loaned from museums. All the works are by artists who were born overseas but passed through or settled in the UK permanently. Lucian Freud’s portrait of fellow artist John Minton from 1952 comes to Sotheby’s from The Royal College of Art, London.
5 giorni fa · Lucian Freud was German by birth, but a very English artist. The eternally parochial English art scene is a circus of celebrity and controversy in which the art itself serves as a prop to the drama. The vortex of veneration around Freud’s art has for decades epitomised a national artistic culture that can’t find its feet.
