Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985 by Lucian Freud (1922-2011, Germany) Lucian Freud | WahooArt.com

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"Reflection (Self-Portrait)"

Lucian Freud (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 51 x 56 cm - 1985 - Expressionism (i)
Lucian Freud was one of the greeted realist painters of the 20th Century, known for his depictions of the naked human form. His grandfather was psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud. Lucian Freud insisted that he was more intrigued by his grandfather’s work as a biologist, not a psychologist but like his grandfather, he aspired to delve into the emotional and psychological makeup of the figures that he paints, including himself. In Reflection (Self Portrait), he paints with thick impasto, a technique that was used increasingly as he aged. Although his figure faces the viewer, his eyes drift to the side, he gazes towards the distance as if in contemplation. There is a certain difference between nude and naked, the latter is when one is stripped of clothes. And he admits he paints the nakedness, the shame and vulnerability, not the nude, which is balanced and elegant. On the topic of his self-portraits, he says “I don’t accept the information that I get when I look at myself and that’s where the trouble starts”. This explains the uneasiness in his posture and face, a discomfort bordering on rejection. Freud continued to paint several self-portraits throughout his career, with his main focus on achieving what he called “a biological truth telling”

 





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