Lucian Freud Basic Art (Back To Visual Basics) - Softcover

Smee, Sebastian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3822858056 ISBN 13: 9783822858059

Publisher: Taschen GmbH, 2007

Synopsis

<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"><div><strong>Unflinching truth</strong></div><div>&#160;</div></div><div class="description_text"><div>British artist <strong>Lucian Freud</strong>&#160;(1922&#8211;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 unflattering to their subjects, but they are honest, frank, and unapologetic. &#34;I paint people,&#34; Freud said, &#34;not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.&#34;</div><div>&#160;</div><div class="margin-bottom" id="series_text" style="display: block;"><div><strong>About the Series:</strong><br>Each book in TASCHEN&#8217;s Basic Art series features:</div><ul><li><div>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</div></li><li><div>a concise biography</div></li><li><div>approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions</div></li></ul></div></div>

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About the Author

Based in Sydney, Sebastian Smee is national art critic for The Australian. He has worked as an art critic for the Daily Telegraph in London, where he also wrote for The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, The Independent, and the Spectator. He has written a book called Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse, and more recently, he contributed the sole essays to Lucian Freud Drawings 1940 (Matthew Marks 2004) and to Lucian Freud 1996-2005 (Jonathan Cape, 2005). An interview he conducted with Freud was published in Freud at Work (Jonathan Cape, 2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Taschen GmbH
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3822858056
• ISBN 13: 9783822858059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96