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Moments of Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud was one of the painters of the School of London, a group of independent artists who did figurative painting after World War II.
The horrors seen in war, the absurd life and existentialist philosophy led artists to choose the human being and his fragility, his vulnerability, his despair, his existential anguish as a fundamental theme.
Freud painted that human being without any idealization. And whether he painted him with or without clothes, he depicted him naked, with crudity. And then poetry is no longer about physical beauty, but about that fragility.
We can differentiate two stages in his work. During the first one, until the beginning of the fifties, he had a rigid and meticulous style. In the second one, he painted with a loose brushstroke, making it expressive to achieve that "carnal" effect. His brushstrokes were less precise, but the image was more real, more credible.
1947. Girl with Kitten
1950-51. Girl with a White Dog
1951. Girl with Beret
1951. Interior at Paddington
1952. Girl in Bed
1965. Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait)
1980. Naked Portrait with Reflection
1985. Double Portrait
1985. Self-Portrait
1985. Man in a Chair (Portrait of Baron H.H. Thyssen-Bornemisza)
1988. Annabel Sleeping
1988-89. Standingby the Rags
1991-92. Naked Man, Back View
1995. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
2000. Night Portrait Face Down
2001. Flora with Blue Toe Nails
2002. Self-Portrait: Reflection
2003. Portrait on a White Cover
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Francis Bacon: “My painting is not violent; it is life that is violent.”
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A Bigger Splash (1967), David Hockney.
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