Lucian freud

7 paintings you must see from Lucian Freud's first retrospective at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

It’s in this period that Freud’s brushstrokes become increasingly forceful, and the volume of paint on the canvas increases, so that it seems to almost shape the contours of skin or hair . In the portrait of the artist Frank Auerbach, his powerful forehead dominates the canvas. The two men had been friends since the mid-1950s, were great admirers of each other’s work and saw each other frequently. It was at the time he made this portrait that Freud began to use Cremnitz white, a dry…

My object in painting pictures is to try to move the senses by giving an intensification of reality. Whether this can be achieved depends on how intensely the painter understands and feels for the …

April 14, 2019If you were the sitter, you were the most important person in the world for Lucian,” says David Dawson, director of the Lucian Freud Archive and former studio assistant to the prominent British painter, known for his visceral, acutely observed portraits. “That’s a very strong feeling, when someone pays that much attention to […]

differ | tv on Instagram: “Double Portrait (1985) by Lucien Freud”

One of my biggest painting inspirations,Lucian Freud.

Lucian Freud, ‘Head of a Girl’ (1975). Freud Centre, Irish Museum of Modern Art