Half a year ago, the National Gallery in London presented a rewrite of the work of Lucian Freud (1922-2011), in which the institution directed by Gabriele Finaldi —former deputy director of the Prado and responsible for the exhibition in 2011 The word made image, for Benedict XVI’s World Youth Day—hid the biography of the autobiographical artist to focus on the expression of the brushstroke, the juxtaposed colors and the fetish of the studio. The montage tried to make believe that the models voluntarily posed for Lucian Freud for months and that the accusations of misogyny and voyeurism as the essence of their art they were a falsehood. Hence the title, New insightsbecause he claimed art “eclipsed” by the life that the artist portrayed on his canvases.
The Thyssen hides the misogynist Lucian Freud because “that is outdated”
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