If you're not familiar with Lucian Freud's work, please take a moment to learn about a great British painter, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, who passed on this week at the age of 88. I understand the arguments against him. His work is offensive, distasteful, uncomfortable, and dangerous, but so is Caravaggio, so is punk rock, so was Beethoven, and so are many things that I love, and I find enormous beauty in their humanity. Either you get him or you don't and that's okay, but the man was a daring and powerful painter.
-I did a "living grand master" post a while back about him that you can view here.
-Freud on Wikipedia
-NY Times article
-Just found a documentary on him I had not seen before on youtube. Here's part one.
These are two of my favorite paintings by him:
His process was completely mad. It makes my heart sing.
A few More...
Ok I put most of my favorites in my other post. The sheer volume of his work is impressive, but I guess that's natural considering he never stopped making work and painted through his eighties.
-I did a "living grand master" post a while back about him that you can view here.
-Freud on Wikipedia
-NY Times article
-Just found a documentary on him I had not seen before on youtube. Here's part one.
These are two of my favorite paintings by him:
His process was completely mad. It makes my heart sing.
A few More...
Ok I put most of my favorites in my other post. The sheer volume of his work is impressive, but I guess that's natural considering he never stopped making work and painted through his eighties.
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