By Hope Sardella, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucian Freud, Naked Portrait, 1972-1973\u00a0oil\u00a0\u00a0on\u00a0canvas 2\u2019x2\u2019; Tate Modern, London.<\/em><\/strong>1237 \u00d7 1330\u00a0(Links to an external site.)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/strong>Who made it?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The name of this particular artist for Naked Portrait, 1972-1973 Oil on Canvas<\/em> caught my attention at first glance. Does the name is Lucian <\/strong>Freud<\/em><\/strong>, sound familiar? Yes, the last name Freud does stand out does it, Lucian Freud is very much so the grandson of Sigmond Freud, also considered to be the creator of psychoanalyst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucian Freud may have a recognizable last name, yet his upbringing gave way for fertile ground for one of the worlds’ greatest expressionist painters. What impacted me the most about Lucian Freud was learning about his character firsthand from interviews with his friends in the documentary Lucian Freud the last genius of 20th-century Realist painting (Alex Perez realist painter (Links to an external site.)<\/a>, 2017). When Freud’s Assistant, David Dawson, was interviewed, he stated it was the fact that he intertwined his personal love affairs within his art, which made him the artist he was. Lucien’s attention to people that he gave his waking life reflected greatly in his work. The paintings of Lucien Freud have a level of detail, showing the human form in its full imperfectness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a child, Freud was not interested in formal school much and often received bad grades. Instead, the young Freud grew an attachment to the equestrian tender on his family’s property and began drawing horses first. Throughout Freud’s life, he states that it was this beginning fascination with animals that propelled him to continue with painting. It is also noted that Freud came from a wealthy upper-class family, so not fitting the mold of what his father wanted him to become as one of the other significant driving forces behind Freud’s transformation as an artist and not a Jokey for the horse races he was addicted to later in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another significant feature of Freud was that it was noted that he was compelled to gamble his money on horse races, in order to lose all his money so that he could somehow find the inner drive or hunger to paint. It was almost the extreme sums of money that came from his record-breaking sale at auctions, which may have enabled a toxic lifestyle. It was noted that Freud illusiveness as a painter is what may have driven the sales up even more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Although there was ample reasoning behind mister\u00a0Freud’s\u00a0mysterious persona. For, Freud was a man who was known\u00a0to engage in love affairs with his subjects he would paint. Additionally, it is known that Freud has fourteen known children, but some say he has as many offspring as\u00a0fourteen. I believe this somewhat\u00a0complete\u00a0analysis of the man behind the painter make one fully leave behind judgement, and\u00a0preconceived\u00a0notions of what one should be but what one truly is, which I believe if Freud was here today he would say that would be to be : animal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n