Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable...
Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable...
«Искусство соперничества» – это четыре истории о непростых личных взаимоотношениях прославленных художников – Мане и Дега, Пикассо и Матисса, Фрейда и Бэкона, Поллока и Де Кунинга. Эти истории о дружбе равно одаренных людей, где ревность, зависть и чувство соперничества соседствуют с восхищением, стимулируя каждого из двоих на пределе сил стремиться к новым и новым творческим вершинам. Восемь художников – героев книги Сми сегодня знамениты на весь мир. Но смогли бы они достичь этого, не испытав...