He died Lucien Freud

[I-V]

The death of an outstanding contemporary artist Lucian Freud, whose works were among the most expensive in the art market in the category "living", will have an impact on the value of art - their price will rise by about 30%, RIA Novosti said the Russian head of representation Phillips de Pury & Company Russia Svetlana Maric.

Freud was in his lifetime record of auctions, for example, in 2008, Freud's painting "The Sleeping social worker" (Benefits Supervisor Sleeping), depicting the sleeping on the couch naked woman, suffering from overweight, went to Christie's auction for 33.6 million dollars. So, set a world record price for a product a living artist.

"Clearly, the death of Lucien Freud's impact on the value of his works. Prices for work immediately jump to approximately 30%, and is likely to stabilize at this level. But we can not rule out a significant jump in prices in subsequent years, resulting in an auction, but this is will depend on the quality of some work, "- said Maric.

Interlocutor of the Agency also did not rule out the possibility that in the future cost of the grandson of Sigmund Freud will be comparable with the prices of the most expensive artist of the twentieth century - Pablo Picasso, but this will not happen right away. "This should take several decades. Prices for the artist's works are dependent on many factors: the activity of its collectors and the general economic situation and the situation on the art market, etc. So for the successful growth of prices for the artist at one point have to come together several vectors, "- she explained.


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[Тютчев]

On the second photo Lucian Freud with his first wife Caroline Blackwood (married in 1953).

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[Тютчев]

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[Игорь Гурьев]

For me it's Uniforms mystery: how this boring , depressing "artist" can someone please to such an extent that I want to look at his "paintings" .

Dumb worthless in terms of naturalism such as Jurgen Kugacha , but no worse Kugacha , because even without a spark .

Extinct sight of all his heroes and heroines , listless stroke , collapses the composition, the inconclusive picture , and completely rancid flavor ...

My God, it's misery could win yourself some sort of " fame " among the plebeians ?
And even the most August the British allowed him to bag a draw so that it can only sblevanut ...

Brrr ...

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Guriev , Igor ; 1722681"

flaccid stroke , collapses the composition, the inconclusive picture , and completely rancid flavor ...

It's all nonsense , you can be a great painter , academician of painting .. but in the history of art to be a complete zero .. and you know it's fine .

Сообщение от Guriev , Igor ; 1722681"

For me this riddle Uniforms :

Dear Anatoly , let me disagree with you (despite your vast experience in the art business ), Lucian Freud a great artist and most importantly : talantische of God (which is most important in painting) ..

[Moriakoff]

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Yes, I'll look out for planet Earth and cry, and just draw it from the window.

There can not draw, paint fly ...

[sergey7]

The world presented a portrait of him


Lucien Freud's eulogy

He died a great artist Lucien Freud (in the transcription, adopted earlier - Freud). He is a great not in the sense that the "cult", "sign" or "topical", as they say about our contemporary audience. He is a great in the ordinary sense of the word, great, like Rembrandt or Holbein. That is great not because it conforms to the needs of fashion, but by the standards of humanistic art.

This means the following: images created by them, are unique, and he expressed such feelings, which, besides him, no one could express, and his line can not be confused with the line of another master. The presence of such an artist is almost impossible - these qualities are not in demand today. His presence in the world meant that the idea of ​​humanism - the idea of ​​man, understood as the cosmos - has not been forgotten altogether.

Freud was engaged in an unpopular thing only: he painted in oils on canvas - and this at a time when twenty-five leading thinkers have said that the painting is dead! Defining art is blurred by critics, the last 50 years, the basic concepts - drawing, for example - trying to abolish. Drawing no longer teach, let alone distinguish the good from the bad painter is simply impossible. Democratic society, needed to eliminate elitism - the art was all an artist can declare anyone. Meanwhile, the art of drawing exists objectively, as it neither eliminated, it is. To explain its nature must be able to distinguish the artist from a non-artist.

Can be explained by the example of other disciplines.

Pushkin wrote: "Storm mist conceals the sky," Block writes: "Black night. Snow White, "Shakespeare wrote," Pomerkni day, get dressed in the mourning sky "- in all cases described in the nightfall. Darkness is not just described in different words, so broadcast a special state of mind, and we are in three exceptional night, not like one another. Poetry of the phenomenon creates an image and create an image can only be having a worldview. The presence of world-view, which is passed a combination of words, so different from other people. If we say "dark", it will not be poetry, though one can argue: the word "dark" is different from the "get dressed in the mourning sky"? Information - anything characterized by the presence of the image.

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Art draw lines on paper is even less clear. Why line Picasso is an art - a line drawn (substitute any name) - not an art? It is not clear what the line does not look like Holbein's line of Michelangelo, Picasso's why the line is not like a line of Modigliani - but the difference between these lines as well as different line from Pushkin's lines of block. The way the pouring line, the line clings to the object, as it meanders and breaks, as it vibrates and is looking for a form - it is always highly individual. Line becomes the actual line of Picasso, owned by him only when the line has turned out his biography in the creation of images. This line creates just such a woman who is exactly what support the child - and another line it is impossible to convey.

When the need for a unique experience no longer - and then needs a unique line were not found art easel (ie painting) is obsolete. Figurative art is not suitable to control the masses, the size of the crowd did not allow the use of image for the suggestion. The painting was created for dialogue, and to send a message to all at once. Requires a template that is suitable for mass consumption: Rembrandt painted or photo of Andy Warhol?

The transition from the humanistic art to the sign indicated the vanguard of the 10-ies, the dictatorial regimes in the transition consolidated monumental Colosse, and democracy, defeating the dictatorship, quickly discovered that he needed at exactly the same - in the decorative arts.

When pressed by the production of figurative painting abstractions, in the West caught on the absurd, but a convenient division of art history: in art in general - and the modern. Before discussing the same masters of social realism and the Third Reich: designated his work as the art forward. Generally speaking, the term "modern" describes the activities, which serves this society, but instead of saying "the art of the epoch of finance capitalism," we say "modern art" - and put in a word humanistic content: it seems to work, aching pain era. In reality, these things are not connected.

Democracy does not require any other art, but a monumental and decorative, but as ideologically democracy operates humanistic values, the decorative products usually associated with moral categories. We continue to use the word 'art', embarrassed to say "manipulation", "propaganda", "decoration". Factory contemporary art proves that the unique artists are no more, successful and unsuccessful projects are fine. In today's world, Lucien Freud was lonely, fashion did not notice - was occupied mainly: draw a picture.

Lucien Freud lived for 88 years, normal for a period of a great artist. It worked, honing the line, making it difficult color, and his canvases loaded with paint, on-not mechanically, but persistently, thoughtfully. So carefully, layer by layer, complicating the surface, adding color to the shade, melted color to color, Rembrandt and Cezanne wrote. The role that Lucien Freud played in the art of the second half of the twentieth century, comparable to the role of Rembrandt among the "small Dutch" and Cezanne among the "Impressionists". Both artists were engaged in that returned the creativity of the time scale of humanistic art.

Rembrandt self-righteous philistinism replaced "small Dutch" - a tragic portrait, Cezanne turned away from the sweet comfort of the bourgeois landscape - and began construction of the world, collecting the scattered specks impressionable bourgeois in new construction. Both masters have done something contrary to them the modern environment, and Lucien Freud - a time of rapid celebration of civilization wrote about things that civilization unpleasant.

At the celebration of life Lucien Freud recalled the main problem being - a death in the face of which refer to nothing small victory.

Freud wrote only pictures, leave a gallery of characters of his time - all classes, all classes. In the past century, the portrait genre was most popular in the West. Beginning with the Roman patricians and up to London merchants - all wanted to keep the history of his face. In modern art portraits there for the same reason that there is no more novels, "Ivanhoe" and write "Car of the Nibelungs": art has become impersonal. The world does not want to know the person. Freud portrait of a lost world presented.

The strangeness of his portraits that Freud wrote his characters bare, this approach is puzzling: why, portraying the banker, you must take off his pants? So he did in order to remove the anonymous accessories, all of what our civilization covers the essence of all that hides our involvement in a common family. No party affiliation, not democratic views, not the checkbook - the life of our more significant marks metami that we shy away from, but who would say, more than any rhetoric. Freud wrote hundreds of dissimilar people, personality traits, special biography - but this is one human race. These individuals came here once, a peculiar type of man of the West, from portrait to portrait the viewer learns more about the group of their own kind, and in unseemly detail. We see an aging society, seeing wilting of an ancient hero. Renaissance tradition has taught us that athletes are portrayed naked - nudity is associated with the demonstration of the vital forces. And in this case shows the decay of the body. It turns out that the financier, manager, pop star endowed with vulnerable and pathetic body, social status does not protect against gout and obesity. Their frailty, alas, as is obvious, as the frailty homeless - just tie a bank account and made them imagine there is another breed. Just as the poor, they hang down the belly, is covered by the folds of the neck, watery eyes. We can say that the titanic paradigm of the Renaissance ends here - revealed the impossibility of recovery. Written by human comedy - in the literal sense of the word - the play comes to an end, all the masks worn by their heroes civilization removed.

Carnival of the dying body akin to the medieval Dance of Death - and in the eighteenth century the same doomed carnival puppets wrote Antoine Watteau - let pupae still dancing today, tomorrow they will be removed in a box and confetti podmetut from the floor.

Then, as shown in mortal society of the West, is reminiscent of "The Decline of Europe" Spengler, but there is a more important comparison. Sigmund Freud (Freud), grandfather of Lucien Freud, is one of the creators of the last century and the society that buries his grandson. The subconscious, the physiological need for freedom - ended gaining this freedom and, consequently, death. "Attempts to protect themselves from suffering through the illusory reality of restructuring undertaken a significant number of people" - the grandson said his grandfather said to witness: the attempts of restructuring is over. In a sense, Freud describes the dialogue family history of wars and revolutions, ambitions and projects is.

Plastic Lucien Freud paintings plot is contrasting aesthetics Rembrandt (scrupulous study of the surface, picking up the corrosive parts) - and the aesthetics of ancient (the creation of victorious figure, solid character, devoid of reflection). Strictly speaking, in opposition to both the aesthetic began to intrigue the Western culture is contained: the heroes are endowed with a soul and Rembrandt are mortal, immortal titans of antiquity, and unabashedly indifferent. Freud combines these features into a single image, shows the conflict subject: here is decomposed body of titanium, watch him die, because he dared to live. We have witnessed how the ancient myth was destroyed inside the aesthetics of modern times: titanium, as it turned out, unable to have a biography. When the revival of the soul and endowed titanium ability to sympathize, he was doomed. Or vice versa - at Titans (tried in the thirties), or forward - burgers (always want), and combine does not work. The process of the Renaissance was recorded by great artists Quattrocento, the process of dying is also recorded. Who is the new knowledge will be useful in the decorative world is unknown, but evidence is now available.

It is tempting to say that the work of Lucien Freud - a postscript to the humanistic art of the West, it would be a scathing definition. But the figurative art, in spite of everything, - a thing quite tenacious. The novel, a painting and verse buried countless times, "but poetry - presvolochneyshaya contraption: there, and no tooth foot." There will always be a writer who stubbornly will put a word to word, there is an artist who would be hard put to smear smear, humanism - this is a question of patience.

Maxim Kantor


07/26/2011

[uriart]

Statements of some participants of the forum about talent or lack thereof, in the late artist can comment on the words of the great fabulist Ivan Krylov:

"Ai lap-dogs!

Know she is strong,

That barks at the elephant! "

[fabosch]

The genius of Freud Do? I do not know. I am inclined, rather, in some respects agree with the statements of Comrade. Guriev. Namely, in the sense that he does not stand out in any special way to their professional qualities, scenic artistry, virtuosity painter. His paintings are rather crude and sometimes naivety, the figure is the same sophistication, and in general is absolutely no maestro. Most of his works is feeling heavy, exhausting work, searching almost blindly, at random, but the search due to a very consistent and totally ruthless and implacable force, force, almost devoid of that in the traditional sense is associated with humanistic values. And I think that it is the totality of the sequence and a certain anonymity that power, perceived in his work sometimes almost physically cause the reaction, which demonstrates to us Comrade. Guriev, arguing it, however, some minor, unimportant arguments. And this is the property of Freud's painting makes it in fact does no longer painting (in which again agree with Comrade. Guriev), but practically this conceptual art. Just a conceptual art does not use the cards, no lists, no objects, not ideas, not the human body, and a canvas and paints. And why not? Why, in fact, a canvas and paint should be removed from the arsenal of conceptual art? And in this sense, article Cantor (a long-standing and consistent criticism aktualschikov and kontseptmeykerov) turns into its opposite, only confirming the inclusion of Freud in this field.
Of course, just say, that use the term "conceptualism", "conceptual art" in its broadest sense, not in the sense of historically specific directions in sovriske. And I know that supporters of terminological clarity primenut not me "bite."
They reflect whether Freud himself in that direction. This is a question for me. It seems to me that the original of his artistic aspirations had no such intention. Simply, he is the type of artist (by the way, say not so rare), slowly and consistently moving in one direction no matter what. Here we must agree with the comparison of it with Cézanne (in terms of facial features precisely and artistic temperament.) And his slow, persistent and progressive work coexisted with the emergence and spread of Conceptualism and other intentions, require for their adequate perception of immersion in a certain artistic and vnehudozhestvenny context. And the hallmark of these phenomena is that without this context, they simply do not read, that is, without that context, they are simply not in the field of art. And with some of the time, this principle began to spread on the work of Freud. That is, without context, they are still in the field of art, but in a rather trivial to the area. While this was not, well, he worked himself a man, attracting the attention even of its dehumanization of the human body (this is just what has always lacked and lacks), but rather a compound of this with a certain archaism of his position. It is no accident that "moved" it in the last 10-15 years.