Lucian Freud
Freud, Lucian (1922- ). German-born British painter. He was born in
Berlin, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, came to England with his parents
in 1931, and acquired British nationality in 1939. His earliest love
was drawing, and he began to work full time as an artist after being
invalided out of the Merchant Navy in 1942. In 1951 his Interior at
Paddington (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) won a prize at the Festival
of Britain, and since then he has built up a formidable reputation as
one of the most powerful contemporary figurative painters. Portraits
and nudes are his specialities, often observed in arresting close-up.
His early work was meticulously painted, so he has sometimes been
described as a `Realist' (or rather absurdly as a Superrealist), but
the subjectivity and intensity of his work has always set him apart
from the sober tradition characteristic of most British figurative art
since the Second World War. In his later work (from the late 1950s)
his handling became much broader.
Normally I underplay facial expression when painting the figure,
because I want expression to emerge through the body. I used to do
only heads, but came to feel that I relied too much on the face. I
want the head, as it were, to be more like another limb.
- Lucian 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 s...
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...h seeing. His attempt to demystify the human form
whilst recording the stories of his subjects marks a significant
stance against the vacuity of much of contemporary art, which refuses
to acknowledge even the existence of such stories and glorifies only
the visible form. Even though he does not explore those stories, the
fact that Freud records their presence within his subjects makes his
work compellingly humane.
"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." - Lucian Freud
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