Lucien Freud at the National Portrait Gallery
I am on my way to London to fulfill one of my new year's resolutions. The Mrs and me missed out on the Hockney show and will probably go and see it in Copenhagen in the autumn where the crowds will be smaller. Today I am off to see the Lucien Freud retrospective on me todd and am very much looking forward to it. I am not usually up so early and it is really nice to see the beautiful English countryside in the early light. The train from Plymouth passes so many idyllic scenes that it is almost as if one is travelling through a history of British landscape painting.
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That sounds like a grand plan indeed. I hope you manage to enjoy yourself. And of course watch out for the paintings where the eyes follow you around the room.
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That sounds like a grand plan indeed. I hope you manage to enjoy yourself. And of course watch out for the paintings where the eyes follow you around the room.
Thank you Miles I shall endeavor to do so. I have never seen a Freud not on a page or screen and I could not turn down the chance to see what basically amounts to his life's work all in one place. Until his death last year he was widely recognised as Britain's greatest living portrait painter and is the last of the old school having even painted Francis Bacon himself. Like Bacon he was a sometimes dark and intense individual whose great gift was to reveal lines, flaws and fears that many of his sitters thought they had kept hidden. So acute was his talent and keen his eye that he regulary revealed a mastery of his medium capable of making lesser painters seem rather pointless.
Sounds interesting. I know Freud's name, but don't know very much about his work at all. I am all for brooding dark people with an affinity for lines and flaws, though by the sounds of it I don't think I would have liked to have been a subject of his. It wouldn't be nice for the faltering ego to have all those macabre qualities exemplified before oneself. 'Lucien, is this how you get your kicks?' I would utter in an obstinate manner and maybe heave a camp sigh.
Going to a gallery is a good idea and I will keep it in mind. That would keep me occupied for a while this summer. Besides the daily newspaper and eating a lot I don't have much of an itinerary worked out. Maybe a day at the cricket too. With my papers. And food.
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Haha, I like the continuous posting. It's a trait that I have a lot of time for. You seem to have set off early. Make sure you keep the energy levels up or you will be all buggered like and those eyes will do more than follow you.
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I look forward to your write up. All sounds rather engrossing.
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As promised for those interested, my thoughts on the exhibition
Sprawling on a pin: Lucian Freud Portraits Wednesday 24 May 2012
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I look forward to your write up. All sounds rather engrossing.
Sprawling on a pin: Lucian Freud Portraits Wednesday 24 May 2012
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The cunt Freud still can't hold a candle to my installation art. He could live to be a thousand and never produce a work of art that came close to the stuff I knock out every day.
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The cunt Freud still can't hold a candle to my installation art. He could live to be a thousand and never produce a work of art that came close to the stuff I knock out every day.
Your daily installations are all on porcelain I take it?
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I like his work.
You did a great job relaying what you saw the way you did.
I suppose with a gift for words you have dabbled in realist style poetry? Painting a picture or capturing a feeling with words? Not the rhyming type.
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The cunt Freud still can't hold a candle to my installation art. He could live to be a thousand and never produce a work of art that came close to the stuff I knock out every day.
Your daily installations are all on porcelain I take it?
I'm a virtuoso of the porcelain. I've installed my art in toilet bowls all over the world, and for fucking top money too. After hours of preparation I work with my own organic matter to create majestic tableaux of infinite texture and variety.
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Ha! Genius X
Bloody Hell time go so quickly. 7 years ago and one of my first attempts at writing about art. Freud was a great place to start and I have still to witness anything approaching his ability and dedication to the craft. The link seems to have broken so here it is again for anyone interested. - http://www.sprawlingonapin.co.uk/201...ay-24-may.html
"Not shying away from having his cock, balls and ass hole occupying the apex of the picture, Freud tries to look uninterested as if he is the passive model in his painter wife’s portrait. She plays along not engaging the viewer in eye contact, and while her face is bright in contrast with her paint sodden smock, it is Lucien who dominates this composition. He does not exaggerate his boyish arms. From here on in the scale of both paintings and subjects gets ramped up...."
Holds up pretty well for a novice, but fuck me I lean so heavily on editors I forget how lacking my basic English is at times
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It is arse, not ass. That is my only criticism.
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