{"id":2803,"date":"2011-07-26T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T00:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2014-12-15T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T05:22:57","slug":"freudian-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/freudian-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Freudian Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2807\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/witheyeswideopen.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/05\/lucien-freud\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2807\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2807\" title=\"file9649\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/file9649.jpg?resize=550%2C494\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/file9649.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/file9649.jpg?resize=300%2C269 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Portrait, 1986, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2004\/apr\/06\/art.saatchigallery\" target=\"_blank\">Lucian Freud<\/a>, who just died on July 20, 2011, devoted his long career to painting figures and portraits from life, perfectly ignoring all the art-world trends of his era.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2808\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artgalleryartist.com\/lucian-freud\/imagepages\/image85.htm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2808\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2808 \" title=\"lucianfreud097-bella-1987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lucianfreud097-bella-1987.jpg?resize=499%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lucianfreud097-bella-1987.jpg?w=499 499w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lucianfreud097-bella-1987.jpg?resize=272%2C300 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bella, 1987, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many of his images are of people and\/or animals sleeping.\u00a0 He always painted directly from live models, often friends or family members rather than professionals, and he worked very slowly, so the sleeping poses may be an accommodation to the models.\u00a0 I am struck, though, by the sense of struggle and intensity in these works.\u00a0 Freud&#8217;s paint has the writhing quality of <a href=\"http:\/\/eeweems.com\/goya\/saturn_large.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goya&#8217;s horrors<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/dollarstips.com\/freebies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/El-Greco-The-Opening-of-the-Fifth-Seal-or-The-Vision-of-Saint-John.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">El Greco&#8217;s spiritual transports<\/a>, but in pictures of people simply relaxing on beds and sofas.\u00a0 I think the sense of agitation arises from Freud&#8217;s own restless struggle to see more deeply and to capture in paint the intensity of his own visual experience.\u00a0 For Freud, every canvas was a wrestling match against a powerful foe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2810\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/eS67vidYeuG10zqAeGOu5Q\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2810\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2810 \" title=\"LucianFreud-Pregnant-Girl-1961\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreud-Pregnant-Girl-1961.jpg?resize=463%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreud-Pregnant-Girl-1961.jpg?w=463 463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreud-Pregnant-Girl-1961.jpg?resize=231%2C300 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pregnant Girl, 1961, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fleshiness of his painting can be a distraction.\u00a0 I got a better understanding of\u00a0 the energy of Freud&#8217;s searching eye by looking at his etchings, where the quality of movement stands out.\u00a0 Most portraitists view their sitters across a distance.\u00a0 Freud&#8217;s perceptual focus hikes over his subjects like a surveyor mapping a territory.\u00a0 He treats the figure as a landscape, to be explored by touch and movement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2811\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browseanddarby.co.uk\/artists\/freud-lucian\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2811\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2811 \" title=\"Freud-Head-and-Shoulders\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Freud-Head-and-Shoulders.jpg?resize=600%2C521\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Freud-Head-and-Shoulders.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Freud-Head-and-Shoulders.jpg?resize=300%2C260 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head and Shoulders, 1982, etching by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Freud loved animals, and he often shows his own dogs posing with his models.\u00a0 He told William Feaver, who wrote a book about Freud&#8217;s work, &#8220;I\u2019m really interested in people as animals.\u00a0 Part of my liking to work from them naked is for that reason.\u00a0 Because I can see more, and it\u2019s also very exciting to see the forms repeating through the body and often the head as well.\u00a0 I like people to look as natural and as physically at ease as animals, as Pluto my whippet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2812\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoetica.tumblr.com\/post\/7906260735\/sunny-morning-eight-legs-lucian-freud-1997\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2812\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2812\" title=\"tumblr_loplm66jDR1qduycso1_500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_loplm66jDR1qduycso1_500.jpg?resize=389%2C700\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_loplm66jDR1qduycso1_500.jpg?w=389 389w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_loplm66jDR1qduycso1_500.jpg?resize=166%2C300 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunny Morning - Eight Legs, 1997, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lucian Freud was the grandson of Sigmund Freud, the progenitor of psychoanalysis.\u00a0 Sigmund Freud spent hundreds of hours with his subjects lying on a couch, trying to penetrate the hidden recesses of the mind through dreams and free association.\u00a0 Lucian Freud also spent hundreds of hours with his subjects lying on a couch, but he kept an intense focus on the surface.\u00a0 I think he felt that the physical body, truly seen, could reveal hidden depths.\u00a0 Surely Lucian Freud&#8217;s work reveals depths, although, as with Sigmund&#8217;s work, it could be argued that those depths belong to Freud more than they do to his subjects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2813\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/collections\/search\/portraitLarge\/mw67986\/David-Hockney-Lucian-Freud?search=ap&amp;npgno=P1001\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2813\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2813\" title=\"David_Hockney_in_Lucian_Freud's_Studio\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/David_Hockney_in_Lucian_Freuds_Studio.jpg?resize=600%2C403\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/David_Hockney_in_Lucian_Freuds_Studio.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/David_Hockney_in_Lucian_Freuds_Studio.jpg?resize=300%2C201 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hockney; Lucian Freud, 2003, photo by David Dawson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Freud said, &#8220;My work is purely autobiographical&#8230; It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.&#8221;\u00a0 Given the necessity of spending a great deal of time with his sitters, he wouldn&#8217;t work with anyone unless he genuinely liked that person.\u00a0 Still, he absolutely avoided any sentimentality or idealization.\u00a0 Freud&#8217;s subjects had to accept that he would portray their every flaw, that he would reveal their mortality.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2814\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rezalutions.com\/lucian-freud-remembered-images-of-and-links-to-his-astounding-work\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2814\" title=\"davidhockney-by-lucianfreud\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/davidhockney-by-lucianfreud.jpg?resize=449%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/davidhockney-by-lucianfreud.jpg?w=449 449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/davidhockney-by-lucianfreud.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hockney, 2003, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While Freud, as far as I know, never worked from photographs, some of his models were photographed while posing for his paintings, which gives us an excellent way of seeing where he exaggerates and what he emphasizes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2815\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvalue.com\/auctionresult--bernard-bruce-1928-2000-united-sue-tilley-posing-for-lucian-f-1106808.htm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2815\" title=\"bernard-bruce-1928-2000-united-sue-tilley-posing-for-lucian-f-1106808\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bernard-bruce-1928-2000-united-sue-tilley-posing-for-lucian-f-1106808.jpg?resize=600%2C394\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bernard-bruce-1928-2000-united-sue-tilley-posing-for-lucian-f-1106808.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bernard-bruce-1928-2000-united-sue-tilley-posing-for-lucian-f-1106808.jpg?resize=300%2C197 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Tilley posing for Lucian Freud, 1995, photo by Bruce Bernard<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2816\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anticap.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/22\/lucian-freud-rip\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2816\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2816\" title=\"big_sue-lucian_freud\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/big_sue-lucian_freud.jpg?resize=600%2C409\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/big_sue-lucian_freud.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/big_sue-lucian_freud.jpg?resize=300%2C204 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The painting above is one of Freud&#8217;s best-known works, having set a record for the highest price paid for a painting by a living artist when it was sold at Christie&#8217;s in 2008 for 33.6 million dollars.\u00a0 Notice how much older the model appears in the painting than in the photograph.\u00a0 He seems to have made her more obese and more splotchy.<\/p>\n<p>Many figurative painters do the opposite, omitting bruises and calluses and visible veins, subtly idealizing the body.\u00a0 And many people are repelled by Freud&#8217;s figures, with their sexuality and mortality so blatantly on display.\u00a0 Speaking for myself, this is the very aspect of Freud&#8217;s work that gives it spiritual power.\u00a0 It is the essence of the human condition that we are spiritual beings manifested in animal bodies that experience fear and desire, suffering and decay.\u00a0 I see this as the quality of art that Federico Garcia Lorca calls <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duende_(art)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>duende<\/em><\/a>, the life force intensified by the closeness of death.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2817\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipaintings.org\/en\/lucian-freud\/naked-man-with-rat\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2817\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2817 \" title=\"naked-man-with-rat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/naked-man-with-rat.jpg?resize=534%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/naked-man-with-rat.jpg?w=534 534w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/naked-man-with-rat.jpg?resize=291%2C300 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naked Man with Rat, 1977, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Freud&#8217;s earlier work, such as the portrait below of Lady Caroline Blackwood, lacks the blotchy impasto of his later work, but there is already a kind of magical realism, with enlarged eyes and expressive distortions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2818\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artobserved.com\/2011\/07\/ao-breaking-news-obituary-and-news-summary-lucian-freud-dies-at-the-age-of-88-in-london\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2818\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2818\" title=\"LucianFreud-Girl-in-Bed-1952\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreud-Girl-in-Bed-1952.jpg?resize=386%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreud-Girl-in-Bed-1952.jpg?w=386 386w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreud-Girl-in-Bed-1952.jpg?resize=193%2C300 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Girl in Bed, 1952, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Freud said, &#8220;The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.&#8221;\u00a0 You can see this principle not only in the individual works, but across the artist&#8217;s entire oeuvre.\u00a0 The later work is unquestionably more abstract, the strokes wilder and freer, but they also have a living presence that is much stronger than in the earlier work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2819\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forumgallery.com\/artist\/lucian-freud\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2819\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2819\" title=\"Four-Figures-1991\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Four-Figures-1991.jpg?resize=600%2C432\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Four-Figures-1991.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Four-Figures-1991.jpg?resize=300%2C216 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four Figures, 1991, etching by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2821\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gsahcy2t2drawing.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/this-is-etching-by-lucian-freud.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2821\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2821\" title=\"Painters_Mother-s\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Painters_Mother-s.jpg?resize=600%2C383\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Painters_Mother-s.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Painters_Mother-s.jpg?resize=300%2C191 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Painter&#39;s Mother III, 1972, painting by Lucian Freud, and The Painter&#39;s Mother, 1982, etching by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The face below is surely distorted, yet you can see the intensity of the artist&#8217;s perception in every thick stroke.\u00a0 There is a kind of aura, a powerful presence that cannot be achieved by working from photographs and fretting over accuracy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2822\" style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spenceralley.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/painter-dies-at-88.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2822\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2822\" title=\"LucianFreudEsther1982\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreudEsther1982.jpg?resize=513%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreudEsther1982.jpg?w=513 513w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/LucianFreudEsther1982.jpg?resize=256%2C300 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esther, 1982, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2824\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/somethingtoseeorhear.tumblr.com\/post\/3475466154\/lucian-freud\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2824\" title=\"tumblr_lh3p0iej1E1qgqw54o1_500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_lh3p0iej1E1qgqw54o1_500.jpg?resize=468%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_lh3p0iej1E1qgqw54o1_500.jpg?w=468 468w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_lh3p0iej1E1qgqw54o1_500.jpg?resize=234%2C300 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucian Freud and model, 2004, photo by David Dawson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Freud said, &#8220;Perhaps when you have the sort of temperament that is always looking for flaws and trouble it might stop you from having what you always want, which is to be as audacious as possible. One has to find the courage to keep on trying not to paint in a stale or predictable way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2825\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipaintings.org\/en\/lucian-freud\/night-portrait\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2825\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2825\" title=\"night-portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/night-portrait.jpg?resize=550%2C518\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/night-portrait.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/night-portrait.jpg?resize=300%2C282 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night Portrait, 1978, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll conclude this post with two of my favorite Freud nudes.\u00a0 <em>Night Portrait<\/em>, above, finds beauty in a pose that seems to be both resting and running, and in the textural contrast between the body and the quilt.\u00a0 <em>Naked Man, Back View<\/em>, one of Freud&#8217;s many paintings of the model <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leighbowery.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leigh Bowery<\/a>, also well known as a performance artist and costume designer, suggests an interior life through the turned-away display of a mountainous back.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2826\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/works-of-art\/1993.71\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2826\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2826\" title=\"1991-91-Naked-Man,-Back-View\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1991-91-Naked-Man-Back-View.jpg?resize=449%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1991-91-Naked-Man-Back-View.jpg?w=449 449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1991-91-Naked-Man-Back-View.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naked Man, Back View, 1992, by Lucian Freud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All the images in this post were found on the web.\u00a0 Clicking on the pictures links to the pages where I found them. \u00a0The Lucian Freud quotes were also found on the web. \u00a0All the quote sites seem to have a similar collection of Freud quotes, unfortunately not sourced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucian Freud, who just died on July 20, 2011, devoted his long career to painting figures and portraits from life, perfectly ignoring all the art-world trends of his era. 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