Portraiture Artist Lucian Freud Dies at 88 | Art and Coin TV Blog

“Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London. He was 88. In paintings like "Girl With Roses" (1947-48) and "Girl <a href="http://www.intermilansoccerjersey.com/products/Soccer-Jerseys-15/Barcelona-351/"><strong>Cheap Barcelona Jersey</strong></a> With a White Dog" (1951-52), he put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter's social facade. Ordinary people — many of them his friends and intimates — stared wide-eyed from the canvas, vulnerable to the artist's ruthless inspection.” About <a href="http://www.newyorkjetsnfljersey.com/products/NFL-Jerseys-18/Green-Bay-Packers-427/"><strong>Cheap Packers Jerseys 2011</strong></a> Lucian Freud: 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 ##############, Liverpool) won a prize at the Festival of Britain, and since then he has built up a formidable reputation as one of the <a href="http://www.premiernfljersey.com/products/Soccer-Jerseys-21/AC-Milan-622/"><strong>Cheap AC Milan Jerseys 2011</strong></a> most powerful contemporary figurative painters. Portraits and nudes are his specialties, often observed in arresting close-up. His early work was meticulously painted, so <a href="http://www.casualphorum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1826078#1826078"><strong>Armani Sunglasses discount - place for blog - 博客大巴</strong></a> 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. Biography courtesy of WebMuseum. You can read more via The NY Times here.&nbsp;