Lucian Freud Portraits
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National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, WC2H 0HE
After his death in 2011 comes the National Portrait Gallery's survey of the portraits of Lucian Freud - one of Britain's best loved artists.
Freud is one of the major names in post-war British art. His steadfast commitment to realist painting, whilst everybody else was off installing or happening or what have you, is certainly admirable. His painterly technique - characterized by heavy impasto and a preponderance of melancholic beige - is probably unsurpassed.
Freud's works capture strong emotions - sadness, realisation, despair, hope - and the grit of human existence, but somehow without resorting to bombast.
Until 27.05.12.
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