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Man With a Blue Scarf:On Sitting For a Portrait by Lucian Freud
Highly recommend! I really enjoyed this book! It's such an interesting and different point of view. If you love reading about art, if you are interested in Lucien Freud, and if you are interested in the process of making art and what it takes to be a great artist, you should read this book. The quality of the book is also superb! The art work is printed in good color and detail, and everything the author is referring to, every art work, even if it's not by Lucien Freud, is included in the book, the page numbers are given, and the art work is located usually right next to the text or on the next page. Go and get this book, you will enjoy it!
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October 17, 2010
(USA) | Helpful Votes: 25 | Rating: 5
A View of an Artist from the Model's Chair
Martin Gayford, the critic for Bloomberg News and Spectator, had the extraordinary opportunity to sit for one of today's most important portrait painters - Lucien Freud. MAN WITH A BLUE SCARF is a moment by moment and day by day conversation between these two important men, an opportunity to understand the mechanics of portrait painting like few other books have offered.The book not only gives fascinating inside information as tot he artist/model relationship complete with sketches and in progress images of the sessions, but it also provides an intelligent well written dissertation on the process Gayford observed of the portrait building atmosphere. He also reflects on the various practices of other painters such as Mondrian, Goya, Chardin, Michelangelo, Vermeer and others and provides a treasure trove of anecdotes of the famous people Freud has encountered and at at times painted such as Francis Bacon, WH Auden, Picasso, and even Freud's grandfather, the great Sigmund...
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February 11, 2011
(Los Angeles, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5
double perspective on sitting for a portrait
This is a wonderful book. It is especially interesting to people who paint as it lets you into an educated, intelligent view of a portrait from the view of the model. In addition you get the benefit of "listening" to Lucian Freud talk. And he does talk ... it is great to be able to listen in when he does. If you paint, if you love Freud's paintings, if you love painting as a process, read this. You will love it.
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March 11, 2011
(NY, NY USA) | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5
Product Description
One of the most original, enjoyable, and informative publications about art in our time: the history of a portrait by a major artist as seen from the sitter’s point of view.
Lucian Freud, perhaps the world's leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting, and he vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a work of art.
As Freud completes his portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the artist, giving a rare insight into Freud’s working practice. Through their wide-ranging conversations, the reader learns not only about Freud’s choice of models, lighting, setting, pose, and colors, but also about his likes and dislikes, his encounters and experiences, and the ways in which he approaches his relationship with each portrait subject. Gayford records Freud’s observations on the work of Michelangelo,
Vermeer, Titian, Chardin, Goya, van Gogh, Mondrian, and his great contemporary Francis Bacon. The book is full of revealing anecdotes about the people Freud has met in the course of his long career, including Max Ernst, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Greta Garbo, and his grandfather Sigmund Freud.
Illustrated with photographs of Freud at work and an etching that Freud did of Gayford after the painting was completed, the book also features other paintings by Freud from the 1940s to the present, as well as images by artists discussed by Freud with Gayford. 50 color and 14 black-and-white illustrations
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