Video: Wsj Review Of Lucian Freud Portraits + Bbc2 Programme

This is the Wall Street Journal's video overview of the novel "Lucian Freud Portraits" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.  It's the best video I've seen to appointment inward damage of coverage of the paintings inward the exhibition.

There's a programme - Lucian Freud: Painted Life - on BBC2 on Sat 18th February

Painted Life explores the life in addition to function of Lucian Freud, undoubtedly 1 of Britain's greatest artists. Freud gave his amount backing to the documentary soon earlier his death. Uniquely, he was filmed icon his terminal work, a portrait of his assistant David Dawson.

Lucian Freud: Painted Life besides includes frank testimony from those who knew in addition to loved this extraordinary personality. Members of his large household unit of measurement (he had at to the lowest degree 14 children past times a set out of dissimilar women), unopen friends including David Hockney in addition to Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, his dealers, his sitters in addition to his sometime lovers yell back for the commencement fourth dimension a complex human who dedicated his life to his fine art in addition to who ever sought to transmute pigment into a vibrant living representation of humanity.

The celluloid shows how Freud never swam amongst the period of time in addition to entirely achieved celebrity inward older age. He rejected the artistic fashions of his time, sticking to figurative fine art in addition to exploring portraiture, particularly amongst regards to nude portraiture, which he explored amongst a depth of scrutiny that produced approximately of the greatest plant of our time.

This documentary is both a definitive biography in addition to a revelatory exploration of the creative process.

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