Lucien Freud

[DaveL...@hotmail.com]

Does anyone know of any interviews with Lucien Freud or any quotes by
him on his own work.
Ive searched high and lo ..either hes very reserved about his work or
im looking in the wrong place.

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[staxx1965]

Here are some sources that contain bio info and interviews with the
rather reclusive Freud. Also, check libraries Art Periodical Index
books for Freud articles, or see if they have any of the relativly few
Freud books out there. Even search around the web for some book deals
and buy some, the Hughes book is nice. In the interviews with him I've
read, he never really pours his guts out, but you can tell he's
passionate about his work,

Feaver, William. "Inside Freud's Mind" ARTnews Sept.1993 (Cover Story)
pgs. 136-141

Hughes, Robert, Lucian Freud Paintings. Thames and Hudson, Inc., New
York, 1987.

Penny, Nicholas, Lucian Freud: Works on Paper. Thames and Hudson, Inc.
New York, 1988.

Lampert, Catherine. Lucian Freud:Recent Work. Rizzoli. New York. 1993.

(This book reprints a 1954 essay by Freud)
Stiles, Kristine and Selz, Peter, Theories and documents of
contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists’ writings. University of
California Press Ltd., Berkeley, 1996.

Here are some quotes by Freud I have saved from some past research:

"The rigidity of Surrealism, in its rigid dogma of irrationality,
seemed unduly limiting. I could never put anything into a picture that
wasn’t in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of
artfulness.” (Hughes 13).

“The aura given out by a person or subject, is as much a part of them
as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with
them as might be their colour or smell. Therefore the painter must be
as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with that subject
itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he
can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
(Stiles 221)

“ I know my idea of portraiture came from dissatisfaction with
portraits that resembled people. I would wish my to be of the people,
not like them”. (Penny 18)

“ In a culture of photography we have lost the tension that the
sitter’s power of censorship sets up in the painted portrait...the
degree to which feelings can enter into the transaction from both
sides,” “Photography can do this to a tiny extent, painting to an
unlimited degree." (Hughes 18)

"For me the painting is the person." (Feaver 140)

This should get you started,
staxx

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