Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery – in pictures
"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. Freud painted his family, friends and lovers, referring to his models as 'the people in his life'. Here are some of the highlights from the show."
Lucien Freud has always been a huge inspiration throughout all of my artwork, he is one of my favourite artists as his figurative paintings of the models display techniques and skills of his work which is outstanding.
This is one of his famous paintings, a self portrait, produced in acrylic, the detail and patience he has put in to produce this painting is amazing, the colours in the painting are very neutral, focusing really on only browns, yellows, greens and oranges.
I wanted to produce a replicate of his self portrait as the usage aof colour and detail inspires myself to create work as successful as his.
Using watercolours instead of acylics as I usually find it much easier for the colours to blend and clash rather than producing a piece of work that may turn out wrong.
Lucian Freud Portraits – review
"Lucian Freud painted strange, uneasy, figures, from first to last. Maybe they were uneasy because he was painting them. There was as much violence as tenderness in his stare, and in the ways he devised to paint.
This tremendous show tracks Freud's inquisitiveness and inventiveness, his constant returns to the mystery of presence. Almost everything Freud did was a portrait of a situation or a confrontation as much as it was a body in a room, whether the body belonged to a lover, a daughter, the artist's mother, a baron, a bank robber or the Queen."
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