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Hello Alicia,
I think it's interesting to see how much discussion this work has provoked. Powerful things have a way of doing that.
Art isn't always pretty, is it? Have you seen any of Goya's war work or his late murals? I bet his contemporaries weren't too impressed.
Pretty Freud ain't. Literal? No way. But if you think this guy is having us all on, try looking at his etchings or other paintings. Freud is no con-man. He's a master draftsman and technically a brilliant painter. So is it worth asking why he has painted the Queen like this, when he is perfectly capable of making a flattering likeness if he wants to?
The picture is uncomfortable and disturbing. Do you think it was meant to be? This guy isn't cozy- he's confronting. Is there a place for that?
I merely ask....
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