Lucian Freud : The Painter's Etchings - Couverture rigide

Figura, Starr

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 087070706X ISBN 13 : 9780870707063

Editeur : Museum of Modern Art, 2007

Synopsis

One of the foremost figurative artists working today, Lucian Freud (British, born Germany 1922) has redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny of the human form. Although best known as a painter, etching has become integral to his practice. This full catalog of the exibition will present the full scope of Freud's achievements in etching, including some seventy-five examples ranging from rare, early experiments in the 1940s to the increasingly large and complex compositions created since his rediscovery of the medium in the early 1980s. In a dramatic and unusual cross-media installation, it will also include a selection of related paintings and drawings, illuminating the crucial, cross-pollinating relationship between Freud's etchings and paintings. Freud is not a traditional printmaker. He treats the etching plate like a canvas, standing the copper upright on an easel. He typically depicts the same sitters in etching as in painting, always working directly from his models and demarcating their forms through meticulous networks of finely etched lines. But with their figures dramatically cropped or isolated against empty backgrounds, Freud's etchings achieve a startling new sense of psychological tension and formal abstraction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Catalogue de l'exposition au MoMA consacrée au grand artiste britannique Lucian Freud. Bien connu en tant que peintre, il a réalisé, depuis le début des années 1980, de nombreuses eaux-fortes qui sont présentées dans cet ouvrage en regard de quelques peintures et dessins.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Museum of Modern Art
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 087070706X
• ISBN 13: 9780870707063
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144