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Freud At Work by Sebastian Smee
Category: Art
Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private. He has frequently stated his reluctance to be photographed and he has almost never agreed to be interviewed.Following the publication of the last ten years of his work by Jonathan Cape in the autumn of 2 ...Show more
Lucian Freud by Sebastian Smee
Category: Art Books
British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was widely considered the most important figurative painter of his generation. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud used impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to mostly muted hues. His portraits may be physically unf ...Show more
Lucian Freud by Sebastian Smee
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art
British artist, Lucian Freud is widely considered the most important figurative painter working today. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud uses impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to mostly muted hues. His portraits may be physically unflattering to the ...Show more
Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits by David Dawson (Text by); Lucian Freud (Artist); Joseph Koerner (Text by); Jasper Sharp (Text by); Sebastian Smee (Text by)
Category: Art and Design
The artist stripped bare by himself: Lucian Freud's self-portraits redefine the genre In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them "revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless." It was advice that the artist wa ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age by Sebastian Smee
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 72
What is the inner life? And is it vanishing in the digital age? Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitudeand reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-wall marketing, reality television and theagitation of modern life, everything f ...Show more
The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee
Category: Art and Design
"Genius, friend, rival: this is the story of four pairs of artists whose intense relationships spurred and shaped their art. Matisse and Picasso. Manet and Degas. Bacon and Freud. De Kooning and Pollock. Eight of the most significant modern artists; four pairs linked by friendship and a shared spirit of ...Show more
The Art of Rivalry - Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art by Sebastian Smee
Category: Art
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists--Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon--whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of the mo ...Show more
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