Lucian Freud's normal style life- One day with Freud- Documentary artist's day

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Documentary short movie about Lucian Freud's One usual day. Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011)was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time.His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model.Born in Berlin, Freud was the son of a German Jewish mother, Lucie (née Brasch), and an Austrian Jewish father, Ernst L. Freud, an architect.He was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and elder brother of the broadcaster, writer and politician Clement Freud (thus uncle of Emma and Matthew Freud) and the younger brother of Stephan Gabriel Freud. He moved with his family to St John's Wood, London, in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British subject in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School,for a year before being expelled due to disruptive behaviour. Freud's early paintings, which are mostly very small, are often associated with German Expressionism (an influence he tended to deny) and Surrealism in depicting people, plants and animals in unusual juxtapositions. Some very early works anticipate the varied flesh tones of his mature style, for example Cedric Morris (1940, National Museum of Wales), but after the end of the war he developed a thinly painted very precise linear style with muted colours, best known in his self-portrait Man with Thistle (1946, Tate) and a series of large-eyed portraits of his first wife, Kitty Garman, such as Girl with a Kitten (1947, Tate. These were painted with tiny sable brushes and evoked Early Netherlandish painting. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, a very large portrait of "Big Sue" Tilley (see below), showing his handling of flesh tones, and a typical high viewpoint. Freud's portraits often depict only the sitter, sometimes sprawled naked on the floor or on a bed or alternatively juxtaposed with something else, as in Girl With a White Dog (1951–52) and Naked Man With Rat (1977–78). According to Edward Chaney, "The distinctive, recumbent manner in which Freud poses so many of his sitters suggests the conscious or unconscious influence both of his grandfather's psychoanalytical couch and of the Egyptian mummy, his dreaming figures, clothed or nude, staring into space until (if ever) brought back to health and/or consciousness. The particular application of this supine pose to freaks, friends, wives, mistresses, dogs, daughters and mother alike (the latter regularly depicted after her suicide attempt and eventually, literally mummy-like in death), tends to support this hypothesis. --------------------------------------------------------- for more information go to www.mythragallery.com ------------------------------------------------ Mythra Gallery was founded by professional group of artists and art patrons in 2015 as an alternative in the art category. Its name comes from Persian mythology( the god of light ). In Mythra Art gallery we present several generations of artists working; you will find international professional art works of different art styles and periods in our exhibitions. We believe it necessary to return aesthetics and reflection to daily life, and foster an ongoing dialogue with creativity, creations, and creators in general. We hope that our space will be a friendly meeting place for both artists and people interested in art.