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Known as the philosopher of art, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud, has passed away at age 88 in his London home from a short illness. The Guardian honors him as a great portrait painter of nudes…and a frightening driver. Their article, “Lucian Freud: the best of the web,” describes him as a man who was a fundamentalist in his beliefs. Lucian felt strongly that an artist’s thoughts should never interfere with his or her artistic works, once writing, “…thoughts should appear no more than God in nature.”
Lucian Freud was born to Sigmund Freud’s youngest son, Ernst L. Freud, growing up in a very wealthy neighborhood. His father was an architect and his mother was heiress to a timber fortune. When he set up his art studios in squalid neighborhoods, he was known to gamble recklessly, as he said that debit stimulated him to create.
According to the New York Times, even though Lucian Freud was known to venture into surrealism in his earlier days, he would later vehemently deny the style, “I could never put anything into a picture that wasn’t actually there in front of me,” he told the art critic Robert Hughes. “That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.”
The subject matter of Freud’s portraits was usually people he knew---children, lovers, friends, family, and fellow painters. He once said, “The subject matter is autobiographical, it’s all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.” (Lucian Freud, British Council, 2009. Retrieved July 23, 2011).
Known as a gregarious man who lived a lavish lifestyle, Lucian very seldom gave interviews. A recluse, he would work in a ramshackle studio that had become the artist’s paint-soiled retreat over the years, methodically wiping his brush clean after each stroke on the canvas. The work of Lucian Freud was considered bold and uncompromising throughout the world except in the United States, until quite recently when he sold a 1995 large painting of a naked woman on a couch for $36.6 million dollars at Christie’s.
The first of his work to sell at an art auction, the nude painting of Sue Tilley (also known as “Big Sue”) was described as “a bold and imposing example of the stark power of Freud’s realism.” Nicholas Serota, director of London’s Tate gallery, said, “The vitality of [Freud’s] nudes, the intensity of the still life paintings and the presence of his portraits of family and friends guarantee Lucian Freud a unique place in the pantheon of late 20th century art.” (Oregon Live) |
British artist Lucian Freud dies aged 88
Realist painter Lucian Freud, grandson of the inventor of modern psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and widely seen as Britain's top contemporary artist, has died in London aged 88, his lawyer said Thursday. Duration: 01:04 lucian freud speaks 1/5
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In memory of Lucien Freud
Lucien Freud
Freud was born in Berlin in December 1922, and came to England with his family in 1933. He studied briefly at the Central School of Art in London and, to more effect, at Cedric Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham. Following this, he served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941. His first solo exhibition, in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery, featured the now celebrated The Painter's Room 1944. In the summer of 1946, he went to Paris before going on to Greece for several months. Since then he has lived and worked in London.
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