艺术家简介
Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his nude paintings are rendered with true dimensionality, texture, and weight, achieved through his generous application of pigment and expressive mark-making. He would often paint family, friends, and acquaintances, imbuing his portraiture with a distinct intimacy and unique psychological space. Painted under intense direct observation, usually over the course of many sittings, Freud observed of his practice: “The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes and, ironically, the more real.” Born Lucian Michael Freud on December 8, 1922 in Berlin, Germany as the grandson of Sigmund Freud, he moved with his family to London to escape Nazism in his home country in 1933. He studied art at the Central School of Art and Goldsmiths College, befriending Francis Bacon and becoming associated with a group of figurative artists working in London in the late 1940s and 1950s, and gradually achieving widespread success and acclaim. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and retrospectives, notably including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Museo Correr in Venice, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He continued to live and work in London, England until his death on July 20, 2011 at the age of 88.
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