… Cy Twombly, Lucian Freud has died.
He was Sigmund Freud’s grandson. In a recent interview, he said: “I am not at all introspective.”
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He was interested in presence, and not only human presence: a lightbulb’s glare, a dog’s leg, a horse’s arse, a frayed bit of carpet. The language with which he described people and things, animals and lovers, atmosphere and futility, was a frightening construction. I believe he shared more with his psychoanalyst grandfather than he liked to admit.
July 21st, 2011 at 9:58PM
The Sibling of Daedalus has a post on LF.
July 22nd, 2011 at 6:50AM
I’ve been a fan of LF for a long time, his connection with the original ‘Dr. Joy’ is something of a cosmic joke, IMO. In fact, Freud remade modern portraiture– it’s now, thankfully, something that even ‘real’ artists can do without apology.