Jack of All Trades

hijaktaffairs:

lucian freud with david hockney
excellent short read on lucian freud from the ny times
He loathed gentility and social convention. To him they smacked of  fakery, like the various artistic symbolisms, Surrealism among them,  that modern painting had contrived. The real world, stripped bare,  already presented unfathomable strangeness and fascination. An artistic  life should exhaust itself trying to unpack it.

hijaktaffairs:

lucian freud with david hockney

excellent short read on lucian freud from the ny times

He loathed gentility and social convention. To him they smacked of fakery, like the various artistic symbolisms, Surrealism among them, that modern painting had contrived. The real world, stripped bare, already presented unfathomable strangeness and fascination. An artistic life should exhaust itself trying to unpack it.

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