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View Poll Results: Do you like this portrait of Queen Elizabeth by Lucian Freud?
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yes
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no
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partially
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04-24-2002, 01:42 PM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
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Location: Peterborough, NH
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and more...
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04-24-2002, 01:44 PM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
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and...
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04-24-2002, 01:49 PM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
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So far...if his work "says" anything to me, it is that he is a nasty, angry man who doesn't much like people.
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04-24-2002, 01:51 PM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
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04-24-2002, 01:56 PM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
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I wonder what would happen some of these appeared in the "Critique" section?
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05-07-2002, 10:55 AM
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Associate Member
Joined: May 2002
Location: Wollongong, Australia
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Freud
OK- I've just looked at the whole thread about Freud and offer this without comment of any kind:
I used to be a professional photographer and was fond of saying "If you love or hate my work, I've succeeded. If you are indifferent to it, I've failed."
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05-27-2002, 11:02 PM
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#7
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Juried Member
Joined: May 2002
Location: Hammond, LA
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To each his own, but I think she looks like an old man in drag with a wig on.
Alicia
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05-28-2002, 05:57 AM
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Associate Member
Joined: May 2002
Location: Wollongong, Australia
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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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05-28-2002, 09:36 AM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
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Location: Peterborough, NH
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...when he is perfectly capable of making a flattering likeness if he wants to?
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Are you sure about this? People say this a lot about Picasso, but I doubt that he could have made it as a decent realist either.
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The picture is uncomfortable and disturbing.
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Yes, I agree, but I do not understand why anyone would choose to purchase something so unpleasant to look at. Perhaps this just boils down to one's personal philosophy.
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05-28-2002, 10:03 AM
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Juried Member
Joined: Jul 2001
Location: Chesapeake, VA
Posts: 49
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I'm going to say that I like it. As an artist we are to depict the image and personality of the subject in the portrait. Therefore, I believe that he has captured a likeness. I understand that the queen is not a particularly pleasant person. Thus, I believe that he has portrayed that image. I like the looseness of the work, very impessionistic.
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Regards, Tom
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