freud, o pintor

Lucian Freud: Rapariga com um cão, 1951-2

[Esta semana e até domingo o Frescas e Boas colocará diariamente pinturas do Lucian Freud, neto do autor da psicanálise. Este autor, conforme noticia a Visão desta semana, vai ser homenageado em Veneza por ocasião da Bienal de Arte da cidade. O Museu Correr exibe de 11 de Junho a 30 de Outubro, uma das maiores mostras de sempre do pintor britânico Lucien Freud. Serão 90 quadros, entre os quais o seu último, terminado já este ano, The painter is surprised by a naked admirer. Lucian é hoje p pintor vivo mais caro do mundo. O retrato da top model Kate Moss foi vendido em Fevereiro por 5,750 milhões de euros. Os seus quadros retratam quase sempre corpus nus e, por vezes, deformados, à semelhança do que fazia o seu amigo Francis Bacon.]

Quem é Lucien Freud?
Freud, Lucian (1922- ). German-born British painter. He was born in Berlin, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, came to England with his parents in 1931, and acquired British nationality in 1939. His earliest love was drawing, and he began to work full time as an artist after being invalided out of the Merchant Navy in 1942. In 1951 his Interior at Paddington (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) won a prize at the Festival of Britain, and since then he has built up a formidable reputation as one of the most powerful contemporary figurative painters. Portraits and nudes are his specialities, often observed in arresting close-up. His early work was meticulously painted, so he has sometimes been described as a `Realist' (or rather absurdly as a Superrealist), but the subjectivity and intensity of his work has always set him apart from the sober tradition characteristic of most British figurative art since the Second World War. In his later work (from the late 1950s) his handling became much broader. -
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