Reflection
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<html> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/2825615565_bd7c9bffe7_o.jpg" width="550" height="611"/></p> <p> Some critics consider Lucien Freud the greatest living British painter. Freud comes from a long-standing German Jewish family. His grandfather is the famous psychologist and psychologist Sigmund Freud. His mother belongs to a family of merchants and employers.<br> Freud was born in Berlin in 1922. When Hitler came to power, the situation of Jews in Germany became unbearable. The family decided to immigrate to Britain and settle there permanently.<br> Lucien Freud's work is particularly important because it is connected to the time of war and the aftermath of the Nazi era. His paintings are filled with pictures of naked men and women in different situations and situations.<br> It was said at one time that as much as Sigmund Freud was interested in studying self and exploring its surroundings, insofar as his grandson was obsessed with the body. There is a near-permanent presence of chairs in his paintings. It seems that his interest in chairs and sofas derives from the proximity of these objects of human flesh, which makes Freud a constant concern and reflection.<br> When we look at his paintings depicting naked women, we discover that she has nothing to do with sex or eroticism. The skin is thick, cranky, bone biting, limbs exhausted, eyes rigid, faces sad and cold.<br> The presence of women in the paintings is vague and fragmented, and their features in general raise in themselves only a sense of indescribable tension and tired isolation and exhaustion.<br> In one of his old paintings, we see a young woman with pale eyes holding a small cat from her neck. Although women's expressions are devoid of any trace of aggression or violence, the scene suggests that the woman is about to kill the cat strangled.<br> One of the most famous paintings of Lucien Freud is the portraiture he painted for himself at the age of 64, when he was at the height of his artistic maturity. The painting is not a personal "portrait" in the conventional sense; it is the image of the artist as reflected in a mirror, as indicated by the title.<br> Facial expressions here strict, harsh looks, worried, and tense like a tiger stimulated. It is the same style of violence, savagery and shock that Freud has. It is noted that in the painting used thick brush strokes and poured on the canvas thick layers of paint. Among the masses of raw and saturated colors, the face shows the effects of bruises and scars, as if it gives a sense of the harsh life that does not follow us and makes us look naked, exposed, weak and alone.<br> Freud does this with a real reality and a mood full of loneliness and constriction.<br> One of his friends says that it is usual for Freud to wear in his profession clothes suitable for his subjects, and he begins his work in painting with the butcher's knife armed with handkerchiefs, towels and knives.<br> The artist does not seem interested in showing beauty in his works except as much as he sees in ugliness and redness of beauty. It does not mean that it depicts human aspects that express happiness, hope, nobility and optimism.<br> It can be said that the dominant feature of Freud's paintings is that they have psychological and existential implications, which qualifies him to be a painter "Freudia" to the core.<br> Many of his paintings are disturbing and give a sense of life, brutality and fragility. Each personality has its own special existential existence. There is no contact between the characters, as no one sees the other directly, and rarely recognizes the existence of the other. The characters often appear as if they are pulled down by a hidden and mysterious force.<br> It is clear that Freud always deliberately depicts the rooms without any trace of technology or other necessities of daily life, as if they are private and isolated spaces that provide a comfortable and safe refuge for the people from the horrors of the outside world.<br> It is worth noting that Freud is approaching his eighty-sixth year. He is the father of 40 children who have been raised by his passing relationships with a number of women, including some of his "models". Recently, a Russian millionaire invented his painting "Sleeping Supervisor Sleeping," which depicts a naked naked woman for $ 34 million. The other painting, "In the Footsteps of Cézanne", was sold for $ 8 million. </p> <p> <strong>img by</strong> : Reflection, a personal portrait of the British artist Lucien Freud, 1985 </p> </html>