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Lucian Freud herbarium
\"Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how working with plants emboldened Freud to experiment with style and composition. Reproduced in sumptuous plates that allow readers to indulge in exquisite detail, seventy-five works--including Two Plants, Bananas, Cyclamen, The Painter's Garden, and Interior at Paddington--reveal Freud's singular approach to plant life. Readers unfamiliar with this aspect of Freud's work will find many similarities to his portraits--earthy palettes, unconventional rawness, and assiduous attention to detail. From the delicate realism of the cyclamens' petals to the bold brushstrokes that immortalize his overgrown garden, readers will appreciate Freud's ability to portray plants in new and personal ways. Comparative illustrations from throughout art history accompany essays on the history of plants in art and an appreciation of Freud's oeuvre. This monograph is a tremendous contribution to Freud's legacy, one that will enrich his admirers' discernment while also introducing his thoroughly original depictions of plants to a new audience\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lucian Freud (1922—2011)
Obituary of the German-born British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011), who died aged 88 on 20 July 2011. The author notes how Freud's early work appears completely free of the influence of the competing movements of 20th-century art, while it does show some affinity with German Expressionism and became associated with British Neo-Romanticism. His international reputation was gained gradually from the 1970s, as his traditionalism as a painter increasingly came to appear paradoxically radical, his slow methods, effusive brushstrokes, interesting variety of sitters, and persistent, unsentimental mapping of heads and bodies eventually bringing him near-legendary status. (Quotes from original text)
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Lucian Freud : the self-portraits
In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them \"revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless.\" It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's self-portraits chart his biography and give us an insight into the development of his style. These paintings provide the viewer with a constant reminder of the artist's overwhelming presence, whether he is confronting the viewer directly or only present as a shadow or in a reflection. Freud's exploration of the self-portrait is unexpected and wide-ranging. In this volume, essays by leading authorities, including those who knew him, explore Freud's life and work, and analyze the importance of self-portraiture in his practice. Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (27.10.2019-26.01.2020) / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (22.02.-25.05.2020).
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Lucian Freud portraits
\"Portraits were central to the work of Lucian Freud (1922-2011). Working only from life, the artist claimed, 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me.' This major retrospective catalogue surveys Freud's portraits across the seven decades of his career. Featuring the finest portraits from public and private collections around the world, the book explores the stylistic development and remarkable technical virtuosity of an artist regarded as one of the most innovative figurative painters the medium has known. Freud's chosen subjects were often his intimates--family members, friends, and artistic colleagues such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Leigh Bowery, and David Hockney. Freud was private man who rarely gave interviews, and his thoughts on the complex relationship between artist and sitter and the challenges of painting nudes and self-portraits are published here for the first time, documented in a series of interviews with Michael Auping, conducted between May 2009 and January 2011. An illustrated chronology of the artist's life provides fascinating insights into Freud's background as a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and his unorthodox artistic education. An essential book for every personal art library, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates the work and career of an artist who overturned traditional portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art.\"--Publisher's website.
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Portrait of Her Majesty The Queen
What does she really think? Paul McCartney sings \"Her Majesty''s a pretty nice girl, but she doesn''t have a lot to say\". She certainly does, but we never get to hear it. Two endearing recent utterances, \"A Uachtarain agus a chairde\" and \"Good evening, Mr Bond\", prove her courtesy and her sense of fun. And she didn''t have to let the world see this brilliant and truthful portrait. It''s a credit to her that she did. [Lucian Freud] believed that a picture \"in order to move us must never merely remind us of life, but must acquire a life of its own\".
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HYPNOTIC AND HURTFUL
Bella Freud, an acclaimed fashion designer, weeps as she recalls cutting her father's hair when he was in his eighties. The picture that emerges of Lucian Freud is of a man who put art ahead of everything and whose eyes - 'peering and piercing' according to fellow artist David Hockney - missed nothing.
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