Lucian Freud - Standing by the Rags, 1888-89. Oil on canvas
From the Tate Gallery, London:
Since the 1960s the nude has been an important theme in Lucian Freud’s work. The intense attention to the particularities of each body has led some critics to place these pictures in a tradition of realist nudes, which begins with the paintings of Gustave Courbet (1819-77). While many have commented on the disturbing accuracy of Freud’s figure painting he himself has argued for ‘truthfulness as revealing and intrusive, rather than rhyming and soothing’ (quoted inLucian Freud Painting and Etchings, exhibition catalogue, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal 1996, p.10). Intense scrutiny rather than idealisation is an important theme within Freud’s work. (Read more)
(via fckyeaharthistory)
Our next Tuesday Tea lecture (tomorrow at 2:30pm) will feature Barbara Sawhill, a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, who will be discussing the connections between learning a foreign language, identity and self-portraiture.
In her Communication and Conversation class, she asks her students - “Are you the same person when you speak in another language?” The class then visits the museum to discuss identity and likeness in self-portraits by artists in the collection in preparation for writing, in Spanish, their own verbal self-portraits.
One of the works they view, and one of the examples she will use at the tea, is this self-portrait by Alfred Leslie.Alfred Leslie (American, b. 1927)
Self-Portrait, 1974
Lithograph
Friends of Art Fund, 1979.15
Raphael Soyer, Bowery Nocturne, 1933. Lithograph: image, 12 3/4 × 17 7/8 in. (32.4 × 45.5 cm); sheet, 15 3/16 × 21 3/8 in. (38.6 x 54.3 cm) irregular. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.253
found here whitney.org
(via The Pictorial Arts: The Spirit of Spring)
George Herriman — Krazy Kat panel — May 11, 1924
Joseph Mallord William Turner, San Giorgio Maggiore at dawn (1819). Watercolour, 22.4 x 28.7 cm. The Tate Gallery. Londres.
