Medium: A4 Paper, HB and B3
Lucian Freud was a British painter (8 December 1922, Berlin, Germany - 20 July 2011, London, United Kingdom) and draughtsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. His father was a Jewish architect Ernest L. Freud.
His early career was influenced by surrealism but in the early 1950s, is often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Most of the paintings he made were about friends and family. His paintings were generally somber and thickly impastoed.
(Impasto is a technique used in paintings, where the paint is on an area of the surface in very thick layers, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas.
The purpose:
It serves as several purposes. First, it makes the light reflect in a particular way, giving the artist additional control over the play of light in the painting. Secondly, it can add expressiveness to the painting, with the viewer being able to notice the strength and speed by which the artist applied the paint. Third, impasto can push a piece from painting to three-dimensional sculptural rendering. This represents folds in clothes or jewels. Vincent van Gogh used it frequently for aesthetics and expression.
Impasto gives texture to the painting, meaning it can be opposed to more flat, smooth, or blended painting styles. )
Freud often set it in unsteeling interiors and urban landscapes.
In the 1950's he began to focus on portraiture, often nudes (though his first full-length nude was not painted until 1966).
He normally cleans his brush after each stroke when painting flesh, so that the color remained constantly variable.
Freud's practice was to begin a painting by first drawing in charcoal on the canvas He then applied paint to a small area of the canvas, and gradually worked outward from the point. For a new sitter, he normally started with the head as a means of "getting to know" the person, then paint the rest of the figure, eventually returning to the head as his comprehension of the model deepened.
"Benefits Supervisor" in the title of the painting,[29] as in his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which in May 2008 was sold by Christie's in New York for $33.6 million, setting a world record auction price for a living artist.
What do I think of my sketch of Fraud which I redraw?
I am happy with him except the right-hand side-eyes is not for me totally correct. I like the dark lines. The mouth works for me but I think it needs more attention. His mouth was very difficult to redraw.
In my opinion, it looks like a real artwork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Freud
https://www.phillips.com/detail/lucian-freud/UK030315/19
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