Facts About Lucian Freud
I first discovered the artwork of Lucian Freud from a neighbor. I cannot even remember his name now.. no matter, I remembered the name of Freud. My neighbor, kind of an art want to be at the time, practiced and practiced to make each stroke he made on canvas look just like his heroes. His hero of art being Lucian Freud. He did pretty well actually when I think back on it. Lots of people do that, copy the masters, I have done it a few times as well.
What is so remarkable to me about the artwork of Lucian Freud's is his use of color. At first glance one would think his figures were all just flesh tones... but no... no way, there are tons of different colors used. His texture and brush stokes are remarkable as well.
Soo ya know? Maybe my neighbor was on the right track!
One thing I remember not all that long ago, a few years I guess, is the big uproar when Freud painted Queen Elizabeth. I cannot understand the roar though.. I thought it was fabulous!
Lucian Freud was born in Berlin in 1922.
He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Gads, what must that have been like? Hard to imagine.
In 1933, the family moved to London, England. By the early 1940's, Freud had begun painting full time. To this day, London is Freud's permanent home from which he rarely leaves." Godard Gallery
My work is purely autobiographical,...It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know... When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. - L.F.
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Lucian Freud at a Glance
Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter of German Origin.
In May 2008, his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping was sold by auction by Christie's in New York City for $33.6 million, setting a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist.
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Lucian Freud QUOTES
+ The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.+ I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
+ I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
+ I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.
+ My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.
+ When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
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About That Painting of the Queen...
The painting in question is posted by Lucian Freud's Quotes.. check it out and tell me what ya think.
The painting itself is very small, six by nine inches (about 15 by 22 centimeters). It wasn't commissioned, but done on Lucian Freud's request as a gift to the Queen. One can only presume that she was familiar with Lucian Freud's style and knew what she was letting herself in for.
Some of the critics of the painting seemed surprised that Lucian Freud had the audacity to paint his monarch in his usual intense, penetrating style.
The Sun newspaper described it as "a travesty" saying Freud should be "locked in the Tower" for it. The Editor of the British Art Journal was quoted as saying: "It makes her look like one of the royal corgis who has suffered a stroke."
Lucan Freud is known for requiring sitters to come to his studio for many, many sessions. Obviously you doesn't tell your monarch to come to your studio; instead the sittings happened at St James's Palace, between May 2000 and December 2001. At Freud's request, the Queen wore the diamond crown she wears for the opening of the British parliament and in her portrait on stamps and bank notes. Freud was quoted as saying this was because he "had always liked the way her head looks on stamps, wearing a crown" and he "wanted to make some reference to the extraordinary position she holds, of being the monarch."
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What do you think of Lucian Freud's Painting of Queen Elizabeth?
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Beaddoodler says:
Looks as much like her as it can and remain true to Lucian Freud's style.
Posted March 29, 2008
Humm not sure.
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Beaddoodler
Thanks for introducing me to Lucian Freud. His style is truly unique. Posted March 29, 2008 |
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Thanks for visiting and leaving your comments! Posted February 05, 2008 |
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I adore all of Freud's works of art! Posted December 22, 2007 |
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- WebMuseum: Freud, Lucian
- Biography, and scans of some of his work, including a self portrait.
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- Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Lucian Freud
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