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fckyeaharthistory:

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)

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)

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snowce:

Joseph Henri Francois van Lerius, Death preferred

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oldrussia:

Художник Карл Вениг Последние минуты Дмитрия Самозванца 1879

Last minutes of False Dmitry

False Dmitry, also called Pseudo-demetrius, Russian Lzhedmitry, or Dmitry Samozvanets, any of three different pretenders to the Muscovite throne who, during the Time of Troubles (1598–1613), claimed to be Dmitry Ivanovich, the son of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible (reigned 1533–84) who had died mysteriously in 1591 while still a child.

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