Lucian Freud

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"The arc of Lucian Freud's unusual career can be summed up with the words, more paint and more flesh. Freud began as an extraordinary draughtsman but over the decades his thinly-washed canvases acquired greater and greater accretions of paint laid on in broad, rough strokes. At the same time his work encompassed a searching study of the human body--on a scale seldom seen in the twentieth century. With only a few exceptions Freud's subjects have been portraits, and the majority of these anonymous portraits have been nudes. As Freud increasingly drew with paint the flesh of his sitters was rendered with startling power. The unusual, perhaps unreadable, nature of the relationship between painter and model creates an aura in his paintings that can be, and has been, read as either disinterested or misanthropic, profoundly humane or sadistic. But even those who find Freud's..."

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