Lucian Freud: Painted Life
Nov 15, 2013 7:45:05 GMT
Post by adina on Nov 15, 2013 7:45:05 GMT
Germanlady's link seems easy to use, Midoro. Just click on the link --> click on "Continue as Free User" --> in the bottom corner "Download File"
(Although I am not eager to give tech advices, because I am never successful in it.
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If you want the subtitles, you can use this link: tvguide.lastown.com/bbc/preview/lucian-freud/lucian-freud-painted-life.html
Oh, I can't imagine a better appetizer before an exhibition than this documentary!
I am sure you'll approach the paintings even more excited.
One of my favourite anecdotes in it is the Cremnitz White Story:
"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want paint to work for me as flesh does."
Rufus's wonderful voice: It was so crucial for paint to become flesh that when he discovered a heavy lead-based paint, Cremnitz white, it so suited the way he saw things that he couldn't create without it. Cremnitz white helped give Freud his look of pasty, lived-in bodies, lying in stained and damaged rooms.
James Kirkman: Cremnitz white's a lovely paint, and it's got a lovely skinny quality about it. And Lucian, once he'd discovered it, was totally taken over. And I do remember at some stage, the EU was going to issue a ban on paint with so much lead in it or something. And Lucian absolutely freaked out. He got in a total state of panic, and he lobbied Arnold Goodman, who was in the House of Lords at the time, to ask questions. And he bought up as far as he could the country's whole supply of Cremnitz white.
P.S. It was in the news a few days ago that Francis Bacon's triptych "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" has become the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.
I think it was pretty interesting when the documentary talked about their friendship. (at 0:42:55) Freud had problems. "I was aware that my work wasn't a vehicle for my feelings." --- "What did Lucian need to liberate his painting? In 1945, Lucian had befriended Francis Bacon,(...)" There is an important friendship behind the glittery news.
Let's free up paint! 
(Although I am not eager to give tech advices, because I am never successful in it.
)If you want the subtitles, you can use this link: tvguide.lastown.com/bbc/preview/lucian-freud/lucian-freud-painted-life.html
Oh, I can't imagine a better appetizer before an exhibition than this documentary!
I am sure you'll approach the paintings even more excited.One of my favourite anecdotes in it is the Cremnitz White Story:
"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want paint to work for me as flesh does."
Rufus's wonderful voice: It was so crucial for paint to become flesh that when he discovered a heavy lead-based paint, Cremnitz white, it so suited the way he saw things that he couldn't create without it. Cremnitz white helped give Freud his look of pasty, lived-in bodies, lying in stained and damaged rooms.
James Kirkman: Cremnitz white's a lovely paint, and it's got a lovely skinny quality about it. And Lucian, once he'd discovered it, was totally taken over. And I do remember at some stage, the EU was going to issue a ban on paint with so much lead in it or something. And Lucian absolutely freaked out. He got in a total state of panic, and he lobbied Arnold Goodman, who was in the House of Lords at the time, to ask questions. And he bought up as far as he could the country's whole supply of Cremnitz white.
P.S. It was in the news a few days ago that Francis Bacon's triptych "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" has become the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.
I think it was pretty interesting when the documentary talked about their friendship. (at 0:42:55) Freud had problems. "I was aware that my work wasn't a vehicle for my feelings." --- "What did Lucian need to liberate his painting? In 1945, Lucian had befriended Francis Bacon,(...)" There is an important friendship behind the glittery news.
Let's free up paint! 
