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Man Met Blauwe Sjaal (2014)

by Martin Gayford(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9077969152 (ISBN13: 9789077969151)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Uitgeverij Walewein

review 1: This is the kind of book that had the potential to be a tiny bit boring - not a lot happens - but it wasn't, at all. I think a lot of it had to do with the chatty blend of anecdotes/conversations/insights that Martin Gayford is so good at writing, and a lot of it was because Lucian Freud was an interesting man and a very good artist (whose style I didn't particularly like before I read this book but now appreciate much more). It was fascinating to watch the portrait of Martin Gayford emerge and I found a lot of great insights into the process and history of portrait painting.
review 2: I am fairly new to Freud and his artistic output. This book provided a great way to get acquainted with both. The book is centered around Gayford's 'daily' notes which he wrote t... morehroughout the process. So it's basically about his personal story on sitting for this portrait. But he also quotes full-lenght dialogues between him and Freud, retells Freud's anecdotes aso. It's a depiction of Freud, his way of being and how art permeates his whole existence, seen through the eyes of Gayford. less

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