Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud write by Martin Gayford. This book was released on 2013-09-09. Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master—both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This is not a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation at restaurants, in taxis, and in his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden. The book is illustrated with many of Lucian Freud’s other works, telling photographs taken by David Dawson of Freud in his studio, and images by such great artists of the past as van Gogh and Titian who are discussed by Freud and Gayford. Full of wry observations, the book reveals the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and become a work of art.
Breakfast with Lucian
Breakfast with Lucian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breakfast with Lucian write by Geordie Greig. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Breakfast with Lucian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--Provided by publisher.
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters write by Martin Gayford. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj’s proposal, made in 1976, that there was a “substantial School of London” was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley. Modernists and Mavericks explores this period based on an exceptionally deep well of firsthand interviews, often unpublished, with such artists as Victor Pasmore, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj, Euan Uglow, Howard Hodgkin, Terry Frost, Gillian Ayres, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Frank Bowling, Leon Kossoff, John Hoyland, and Patrick Caulfield. But Martin Gayford also teases out the thread weaving these individual lives together and demonstrates how and why, long after it was officially declared dead, painting lived and thrived in London. Simultaneously aware of the influences of Jackson Pollock, Giacometti, and (through the teaching passed down at the major art school) the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar painters were bound by their confidence that this ancient medium could do fresh and marvelous things, and explored in their diverse ways, the possibilities of paint.
A Giacometti Portrait
A Giacometti Portrait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Giacometti Portrait write by James Lord. This book was released on 1980-07. A Giacometti Portrait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerous efforts have been made to discover and depict the creative method of important artists. A Giacometti Portrait is a picture of one of the century's greatest artists at work. James Lord sat for eighteen days while his friend Alberto Giamcometti did his portrait in oil. The artist painted, and the model recorded the sittings and took photographs of the work in its various stages. What emerged was an illumination of what it is to be an artist and what it was to be Giacometti--a portrait in prose of the man and his art. A work of great literary distinction, A Giacometti Portrait is, above all, a subtle and important evocation of a great artist.
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Revised Edition)
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Revised Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Revised Edition) write by Martin Gayford. This book was released on 2016-08-16. A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Revised Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.” —Booklist David Hockney’s exuberant work is highly praised and widely celebrated—he is perhaps the world’s most popular living painter. But he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. This new edition includes a revised introduction and five new chapters which cover Hockney’s production since 2011, including preparations for the Bigger Picture exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 2012 and the making of Hockney’s iPad drawings and plans for the show. A difficult period followed the exhibition’s huge success, marked first by a stroke, which left Hockney unable to speak for a long period, followed by the vandalism of the artist’s Totem tree-trunk, and the tragic suicide of his assistant shortly thereafter. Escaping the gloom, in spring 2013 Hockney moved back to L.A. A few months later, Martin Gayford visited Hockney in the L.A. studio, where the fully-recovered artist was hard at work on his Comédie humaine, a series of full-length portraits painted in the studio. The conversations between Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by surprising and revealing observations on other artists—Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso among them—and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockney’s birthplace, and California.
