[Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm]

7 paintings you must see from Lucian Freud's first retrospective at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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BOSTON - Without a whole lot of anagrammatical labor, "modern master," which is a term most people in the art game apply to Lucian Freud, becomes "monster dream," which might well describe - to some, anyway - both the artist and his art. Freud might actually like that. Lucian Freud's biography makes bad boy Paul Gauguin - whose life and work I just dove into in these pages - look like a choirboy. A choirboy in a dark religion, admittedly, but still . . .

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, 1659

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With ‘American Gothic’ in the UK for the first time, we take a look at some of the other iconic works that have attracted moustaches, Muppets and other mimicry across art history.

Collection Antony Bryan Self Portrait - Time Flies (1929) This self-portrait was painted the year Frida and Diego were married. It portrays the Frida that Rivera loved. Here she has replaced the Renaissance style of her previous paintings with the more traditional Mexican folk style of painting that was being used by Diego in his murals. This painting is in sharp contrast to her first selfportrait (1926) in which she appears as the melancholy aristocrat in dark flat colors. She now uses…

I found this great image online. you could just sense the paints thickness, he preached to let the paint retain the tracks of the brush. i have a little suspicion that as much as he squinted he would also blurred his vision with eyes wide open in order to eliminate the number of planes and detail, in order to see color mass and color variations. This is why i think he was among the greatest to capture flesh tones because he then was more able to see color by itself instead of color as the…