Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits at the Garden Museum, London, is a wonderfully illuminating exhibition that says much about how the artist saw his surroundings. If you want to know how Lucian Freud paints people, you should look at how he depicts plants. A selection of rarely-seen childhood drawings of plants preface this one-room show which,Continue reading “REVIEW | Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits – Garden Museum, London”
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REVIEW | Lucian Freud: New Perspectives – National Gallery, London
The current Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Gallery, London, bears the bombastic subtitle New Perspectives, but for whom? Celebrating the centenary of his birth, the exhibition walks like any other Freud exhibition. Puritan and broadly chronological, we see how the artist’s caricaturish, muddy-looking early style quickly matured into the impasto-laden portraitist we know andContinue reading “REVIEW | Lucian Freud: New Perspectives – National Gallery, London”
Nigel Ip | Visual Arts Writer & Art Historian 