Lucian Freud was a great modern British painter, who was born in
1922, and died in 2011.
He was a figurative painter, and experimented with surrealism, and
he was also loosely associated in Neo-Romanticism in his early work.
In the late 1950s, Freud's brushstrokes in his paintings took on a
three-dimensional appearance; this helped to illustrate the face and the body
in his figurative paintings, in terms of its true shape and structure. He
also preferred to use a fairly natural colour palette in all of his pieces.
This is one of Freud’s early works called ‘Girl with a White Dog’ (on the right).
This work was very controlled, but we soon see over time his style began to
develop into a more loose way of applying the paint. He also used to position
the sitters in dull, bland rooms which helped to emphasis the paint which was
layered thick, creating the texture of the skin - making them appear more
realistic. It is clear when looking at
Lucian Freud’s work that he preferred to draw people in the nude. As his
artwork developed, he began to convey more emotion within the sitter, illustrating
each of their personalities which I find interesting, unique and inspiring.
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