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Man With A Blue Scarf: On Sitting For A Portrait By Lucian Freud (2010)

by Martin Gayford(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0500238758 (ISBN13: 9780500238752)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Thames & Hudson

review 1: By sitting as a model for Lucian Freud, art critic Martin Gayford is given unprecedented access to the extremely private world of the artist. This resulting book gives us a look at the process of Freud’s work; a slow, yet intense process by which a mixture of instinct and control, eye and brain, doubt and constant correction create some of the masterpieces of modern British art.Gayford is also funny and honest about what a model goes through; the excitement, the vanities, the discomfort and the boredom.
review 2: Martin Gayford does a phenomenal job at illustrating the artistic process from an outsider's/sitter's point of view. I found myself identifying more with Lucian Freud's artistic methodologies throughout the book, but I think both artists and non-art... moreists can appreciate the peculiarities in his approach to painting. There's more to this volume than a simple collection of observations on the artistic process. less

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