Lucian Freud

The Best Mothers In Art

Posted 05.13.2012

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HuffPost Arts would like to officially thank moms everywhere for their countless gifts of strength and inspiration. What better way is there to expres...

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10 Must See Painting Shows: May 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 05.07.2012

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May is traditionally the last month of the art world "season." As summer looms, rhythms change and many galleries choose to mount group exhibitions in...

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Lucian Freud's Unseen Drawings

Posted 05.02.2012

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Lucian Freud is one of the most formative artists in figurative painting. Before his death last year, he created unsettling portraits of mottled, swam...

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David Hockney On Posing For Lucian Freud

Posted 02.06.2012

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In July of 2011, the art world lost Lucian Freud, a brilliant mind and a world renown artist who was known for his striking, uncomfortable depictions ...

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Painters' Table: 21 Great Painting Posts from 2011

Brett Baker | Posted 03.02.2012

From the nearly 700 postsfeatured on Painters' Table in 2011, the following twenty represent a unique take on the state of painting in 2011.

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PHOTOS: The Year In Art

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Art Basel, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Barbara, Art Basel Miami, Occupy Movement, Cy Twombly, Art, Video, Marina Abramovic, Occupy Wall Street, Contemporary Art, Slidepollajax, James Franco, Lucian Freud, Shepard Fairey, Ai Wei Wei, Arts News

2011 was the year of the rebel and the art world was not immune from the larger cultural conflicts. The sentiment of civil unrest swept the world and ...

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POLL: Is This The UK's Most Influential Artist Ever?

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: UK, Influential Artist, Tracey Emin, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Glasgow Museum, Damien Hirst, UK Arts, Lucian Freud, Arts News

A recent poll conducted by 'The Other Art Fair' asked thousands of artists of all ages who they thought was the most influential artist in the UK. The...

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Nakedness: Lucian Freud @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Misha Lyuve | Posted 12.24.2011

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If you want to hang out in a room full of naked people, the Lucian Freud's exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a very special opportunity to do that.

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This Small Painting Sells For $5.03 Million

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.14.2011

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LONDON — A small painting by the late Lucian Freud has sold for 3.2 million pounds ($5.03 million) at auction in London. Sotheby's says "Boy's He...

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Lucien Freud's Unfinished Last Work To Go On Display

Posted 11.20.2011

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LONDON (AP) — The last work by Lucien Freud will be shown for the first time as part of an exhibition in London showcasing the late realist painter'...

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Aging Fools

Misha Lyuve | Posted 11.19.2011

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If you wonder how deep the preconception of aging is engraved in you by our culture, just try to give it up. Even for a minute.

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PHOTOS: Top 10 Artists' Muses and Mistresses

Posted 11.15.2011

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The old saying tells us that "Behind every great man there is a great woman," but oftentimes artists keep their beauties right where they can see them...

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Two Deaths in London

Misha Lyuve | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Amy Winehouse, Amy Winehouse Death, Lucian Freud Dead, Amy Winehouse Rehab, Lucian Freud, Lucian-Freud-Paintings, Culture News

Lucian Freud and Amy Winehouse are the two names that aren't likely to show up in the same sentence. But since they both died in London recently within the same week, the pair had me think about them together.

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Remembering Lucian Freud

Edward Goldman | Posted 09.27.2011

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The death of great cultural figures always prompts us to assess their impact on art and, ultimately, on the way we perceive ourselves. The recent ...

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Lucian Freud: Man With a Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford

Jane Chafin | Posted 09.26.2011

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I was saddened to hear of the recent death of painter Lucian Freud, arguably the greatest painter of our age.

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Lydia Corbett On Being Picasso's Muse

Telegraph | Lydia Corbett | Posted 09.25.2011

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There is a very special quality to the rapport between an artist and his muse. In the summer of 1954, I was Picasso's. He was 72 and already a very fa...

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The Week In Art

Posted 09.21.2011

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This week in the arts: the art world lost another legendary painter, Lucian Freud, who died at 88. We interviewed the woman who bought the most expens...

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The Impact of Lucian Freud

Mat Gleason | Posted 09.21.2011

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After really seeing the power of Lucian Freud, my approach to viewing anything asserting itself as a finished product was recast. I began separating painting from art itself.

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Lucian Freud, Most Expensive Living Painter, Dies (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka/Travis Korte | Posted 09.20.2011

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British figurative painter Lucian Freud has died. His dealer, William R. Acquavella, confirmed the late artist died Wednesday evening following an ill...

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Lucian Freud, British Realist Painter, Has Died At 88

AP | By GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.20.2011

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LONDON -- In a time when other artists spilled their paints on the canvas, Lucian Freud carefully wiped his brush after every stroke. He painted inten...

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Highest Ever Contemporary Art Sale In London

Posted 08.30.2011

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(Via Mutual Art) Sotheby’s triumphed this week and signaled an end to art market woes as its Contemporary Art evening sale raised $174.1million -...

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Teen Curates Urban Art Sale For Charity

Posted 06.13.2011

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(Via Mutual Art) When asked why he prefers Urban Art over other art forms, curator Liam Patel responded simply, “Because Urban Art looks so much co...

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Paris Exhibitions of Lucian Freud and Yves Saint Laurent

Angella Nazarian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week Paris was abuzz with Fashion Week and the opening of 2 extraordinary exhibits: the first ever retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent's entire work, and a showing of Lucian Freud's paintings and engravings.

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NYC Psychoanalytic Society Hosts Artist Jane McAdam Freud: The Edge of Analysis, Art and Politics

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conceptual Art, American Academy of Arts & Letters, Sigmund Freud, Katherine McAdam, Psychoanalysis, Barack Obama, Art, Jane McAdam Freud, Medallic Art, Anna Freud, Souhad Rafey Curator & Artist, Errol Morris, Heddy Honigmann, Lucian Freud, The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYCC, Picasso, British Artists, New York City Cultural Institutions, Guernica, Politics and Art, Mental Health, Joan Erdheim, Alan Grossman, New York News

Situated among the countless arts organizations in New York City are enclaves of passionate culture hounds who gather under the auspices of psychoanalytic training institutes.

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Nude Portrait Expected To Fetch $35 Million At Auction

Times | Dalya Alberge | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Lucian Freud portrait of a 20-stone female benefits supervisor looks set to break the world auction record for any work by a living artist, despite ...

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