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FREE LUCIAN FREUD PORTRAITS PDF Sarah Howgate,Michael Auping,John Richardson | 256 pages | 09 Feb 2012 | National Portrait Gallery Publications | 9781855144415 | English | London, United Kingdom Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits Lucian Freud, renowned for his unflinching observations of anatomy and psychology, made even the beautiful people including Kate Moss look ugly. One of the late Lucian Freud Portraits most celebrated portraitists, Freud painted only those closest to him: friends and family, wives and mistresses, and, last but not least, himself. His insightful series of self-portraits spanned over six decades. Unusual among artists with such long careers, his style remained remarkably consistent. Perhaps inevitably, the psychic intensity of his portraits, and his notoriously long sessions with sitters have been compared with the psychoanalytic practice of his famous grandfather, Sigmund Freud. Lucian Freud was born into an artistic middle-class Jewish family. His father Ernst was an architect, his mother Lucie Brasch studied art history, and his grandfather was the paradigm-shifting psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. InFreud and his family left Berlin to escape Hitler and settled in London. Typical of Freud's early period, Girl with a White Dog was created using a sable brush, which he used to apply the paint with linear precision, almost like a drawing. The subtle shading evokes a host of textures exuding softness, warmth, and the absence of immediate tension. The robe has slipped off the sitter's shoulder, exposing her right breast. Coupled with the absent Lucian Freud Portraits of the woman and the dog, the muted colors and faint contours give this composition an overall flatness.
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