manpodcast: This early Freud is included in “Lucian Freud: Portraits”, on view now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. MAMFW chief curator Michael Auping worked on the show and Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee knew Freud well. They’re the guests on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast! Download it here. artmastered: Girl with a White Dog by Lucian Freud, 1950 From the Tate: This picture shows the artist’s first wife when she was pregnant. The style of the painting has roots in the smooth and linear portraiture of the great nineteenth-century French neoclassical painter, Ingres. This, together with the particular psychological atmosphere of Freud’s early work, led the critic Herbert Read to make his celebrated remark that Freud was ‘the Ingres of Existentialism’. The sense that Freud gives of human existence as essentially lonely, and spiritually if not physically painful, is something shared by his great contemporaries, Francis Bacon and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

manpodcast:

This early Freud is included in “Lucian Freud: Portraits”, on view now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. MAMFW chief curator Michael Auping worked on the show and Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee knew Freud well. They’re the guests on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast! Download it here.

artmastered:

Girl with a White Dog by Lucian Freud, 1950

From the Tate: This picture shows the artist’s first wife when she was pregnant. The style of the painting has roots in the smooth and linear portraiture of the great nineteenth-century French neoclassical painter, Ingres. This, together with the particular psychological atmosphere of Freud’s early work, led the critic Herbert Read to make his celebrated remark that Freud was ‘the Ingres of Existentialism’.

The sense that Freud gives of human existence as essentially lonely, and spiritually if not physically painful, is something shared by his great contemporaries, Francis Bacon and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.