DW Arts And Culture July 13, 2024
And new exhibition at Londons Royal Academy of arts assembles a chronology of selfportrait spanning for delight and career from age 16 to his early eightys. Its an extraordinary journey through both his process of aging the development of the artist from a young boy to old man but also you really get under the skin of his practice and how he developed as an artist the changes in his painting the style the technique of the by meticulously charting his own image lucian freud places himself in the company of the great masters of selfportrait rembrandt and banco. This drawing fred made of himself ...