The Correspondence Of Figurative Vocabulary And Real Existence In Lucian Freud’s Paintings

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most recognized masters in the field of contemporary new figurative painting since the 1980s. Freud’s most representative ideas and painting style have always been the topics of artists’study and research.By studying and contrasting the evolution of Freud’s painting technique with basic art ideas of his teacher, Cedric Morris (1889-1982), this paper explores Freud’s basic concepts about art and their effect on the paintings of his mid-and late period. This paper reviews systematically the stylistic changes of Freud’s works, and provides a periodisation of their main features. By investigating Freud’s painting in the period between 1954 to 1964, this study proposes an interpretation accounting for the stylistic features of his late works.This paper discusses Freud’s artistic thought and the characteristic peculiarities of his paintings by placing them within the overall stylistic development of Freud’s work. Moreover, while exploring the features of his paintings and his stylistic changes, it points to Freud’s continuous consideration of the’real existence’as the source for the unique features of his art and stylistic development. Due to an individualistic tendency, Freud’s works display the particular features of both special consideration for New Empiricism and the mark of his own personal perspective.