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Lucian Freud b1922
Review: Lucian Freud Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
7 February 1988  BBC 2

Lucian Freud talks to William Feaver about

   Audiohis dislike of using professional models  0 min 51

   Audiopainting plants and still lives as opposed to portraits  1 min 17

   Audiohis lack of interest in the response of his audience  0 min 48

   Audiothe influence of artists of the past  1 min 42


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Lucian Freud
German-born British painter

Dubbed "the Ingres of existentialism", Freud's aggressively grim depictions of male and female nudes alter the figurative tradition of the sensual and voluptuous, into an exploration of anxiety, discomfort, and even repugnance.
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