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May 23, 2005
The Most Horrific Living Painter
There's an interesting summary of all the anecdotes about Lucian Freud available from the Times. If you find "life of the artist" as tedious as I do (I teach art without names, as Heinrich Wolfflin used to dream of it), here's the most important sentence: He has remarked of his sitters: "I'm interested in them as animals."
Still, if you think there's something to the idea that painting is all about the application of pigment in medium to canvas and you prefer a recognizeable referent in the painting, Freud's your man. He's a genius. Go look.
Me, I don't much like biography; I prefer fiction. Patrick White's Vivisector.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 23, 2005 7:41 AM