{"id":12417,"date":"2021-09-11T22:28:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T04:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=12417"},"modified":"2022-08-07T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T00:12:04","slug":"a-small-list-of-great-artists-39-lucian-freud-british-1922-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/12417","title":{"rendered":"A Small List of Great Artists \u2013 Lucian Freud’s Self-Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

also see \u00a0A Small List of Great Artists<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/strong> Lucian Freud<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

LUCIAN FREUD<\/strong> (British, 1922-2011) had a massive exhibit called \u201cRecent Works\u201d at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during my Winter Break 1993, and when I flew out and visited my sister there, we wound up in this exhibit, even though we stumbled on it, I wasn’t familiar wtih Freud’s work, and I wasn\u2019t prepared for it. I was truly disturbed but fascinated by his work. The paint was thickly applied on his portraits in a way that appeared like sickly, discolored, mottled, rash-or-scab-covered skin. The subjects looked like ugly, rotting, nude corpses to me, many of them obese. The imagery felt psychologically unsettling, and it hung over me long afterwards. Even though it repelled me, I couldn’t shake the thought of it. The psychology inherent in the work became so obviously self-evident when I realized he was the grandson of FREUD. I later learned how his thick layers of paint could accumulate over hours and months or longer of painting, recording the large commitment of time from his subjects, as he fanatically examined and endeavored to reproduce every fold and blemish he could see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucian Freud<\/a>, Self-Portrait<\/em><\/a> (1963), National Portrait Gallery<\/a>, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lucian Freud<\/a>, Self Portrait<\/em><\/a> (1974), watercolor, UBS Art Collection<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lucian Freud<\/a>, Self-Portrait With A Black Eye<\/em><\/a> (1978), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Lucian Freud<\/a>, Self-Portrait -Reflection<\/em> (2004), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n

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also see \u00a0A Small List of Great Artists\u00a0:\u00a0 Lucian Freud LUCIAN FREUD (British, 1922-2011) had a massive exhibit called \u201cRecent Works\u201d at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during my Winter Break 1993, and when I flew out and visited my sister there, we wound up in this exhibit, even though we stumbled 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