essay on Lucain Freud

Lucian Freud moved with his family to England in 1993 to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British citizen in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall school in Totnes, and then later in Bryanston school. Lucian Michael Freud was born on 8^th December 1992 He is known for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings. From the 1960s he began to paint portrait, often nudes, to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, employing a thicker impasto. With this technique he would often clean his brush after every stroke. The colours of his paintings are typically muted. Lucian Freud’s subjects are often the people in his life. In the 1970s Freud spent 4,000 hours on a serious of paintings of his mother.  Freud has painted fellow artist, including Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon. He is one of the best known British artists working in a representational style. He paints in a very similar way to Jenny Saville and Rubens. I like how he paints real bodies he used many colours and has a rough way of painting which is really effective. Even though his painting are a lot like Jenny Savilles’ work some of his paintings are very unique. He builds the paint up to get good tonal use. I would say Lucian Freud is one my favourite artist along with Jenny Saville because they both paint in the same way. Although some of Jenny’s paintings are disturbing I think this is something I want to look at because it’s real life images. I like how Lucian doesn’t just paint model size women but paints much larger women as well. I enjoy painting in the same style of Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville I think their work has influenced me.

essay on Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville studied at the Slade School of fine art between 1992 and 1993. She has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. Her painterly style has been compared to Lucian Freud and Rubens. Her paintings are usually much larger than life size and are strongly pigmented. Her paintings give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. In some of her work she adds marks onto the body, such as white ‘’target’’ rings. I find Jenny Saville’s work really fascinating to look at, I really like how she uses different tones and the marks she uses are really effective Although I find her paintings quite disturbing. She tends to paint trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients. This is unique but she also has the same style as Lucas Freud and Rubens they both paint in a similar way to Jenny Saville and tend to use the same rough mark markings. Jenny was born in Cambridge in 1970, she is an English painter and is known for her large –scale painted of naked women. She works and lives between London and Palermo. Jenny Saville tends to focus on the female body, painting large-scale paintings. She has painted work of transsexuals and transvestites. She spent many hours observing plastic surgery in New York. When I first had to research Jenny Saville I didn’t like her work because of the disturbing paintings but actually got to like them in a weird way because how detailed they are and how well she uses real life images and her style of painting is really unusual.  These painting are real women and real problems that’s what I like about Jenny’s work. She isn’t paintings what isn’t real. Her work has influenced me because I enjoy painting in this kind of style.