Lucien freud

My object in painting pictures is to try to move the senses by giving an intensification of reality. Whether this can be achieved depends on how intensely the painter understands and feels for the …

7 paintings you must see from Lucian Freud's first retrospective at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Lucian Freud early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.

Paintings of people were central to Lucian Freud's work and the National Portrait Gallery's major exhibition, spanning over 70 years, is the first to focus on his portraiture. Here are some of the highlights

Lucian Freud, ‘Head of a Girl’ (1975). Freud Centre, Irish Museum of Modern Art

Lucian Freud was born in 1922, and is now 85 years old. He's Britain's most famous figurative painter, and possibly its oldest, best known for his raw and unforgiving paintings of nudes.

Lucian Freud Self-portrait Metropolitan Breuer UNFINISHED exhibit

Lucien Freud

Self Portrait, 2002 by Lucian Freud on Curiator, the world's biggest collaborative art collection.

Lucian Freud - Self Portrait; Reflection, 2004. Oil on canvas

“Grey Gelding, 2003 #expressionism #britishart”

It’s in this period that Freud’s brushstrokes become increasingly forceful, and the volume of paint on the canvas increases, so that it seems to almost shape the contours of skin or hair . In the portrait of the artist Frank Auerbach, his powerful forehead dominates the canvas. The two men had been friends since the mid-1950s, were great admirers of each other’s work and saw each other frequently. It was at the time he made this portrait that Freud began to use Cremnitz white, a dry…

Detail from "Cabeza y Hombros de Mujer" by Lucian Freud Museo Botero de Bogota, Colombia