lucian freud was one of the most celebrated portraits just of all time and throughout his life he regularly painted self portraits to these give a fascinating insight into his psyche especially when you consider his words when asked if he was a good model for himself he said no i don't accept the information that i get when i look at myself that's when the trouble starts while now as an exhibition featuring all this trouble at london's royal academy of alts. exposed yet imposing the great painter lucian freud put himself to canvas as the embodiment of his own unmistakable style realistic bold unflinching. a new exhibition at london's royal academy of arts assembles a chronology of self-portrait spanning for a delight and career from age 16 to his early eighty's. it's an extraordinary journey through both his process of ageing the development of the artist from a young boy to old man but also you really get under the a skin of his practice and how he developed as an artist the changes in his painting the style the technique. by meticulously charting his own image lucian freud places himself

born in 1922 in berlin as the grandson of psychoanalysis pioneer sigmund freud lucian and his jewish family fled germany to britain the year of hitler's rise to power. freud's mature self portraits reveal a painter confident in style who depicts themself playfully eerily. or in self mocking. he sometimes uses a mirror placed the viewer level below his imperious figure. this is though he's trying to. pitch himself against his developing technique and also in the older age he was incredibly unsentimental he used to say that he wanted to paint himself to death and he has this extraordinary unflinching scrutiny on to his own aging flesh and seems to be really preoccupied in how to surrender this capture this and translate this into paint it's an extraordinary painting that on the one hand so this seems to suggest the frailty and the vulnerability in terms of his aging body but also his gesture his holding up his palette night it's sort of quite victorious. and his body of work unify the physical with the psychological that's what made him a master and. incidentally lucian freud was the wo

exposed yet imposing the great painter lucian freud put himself to canvas as the embodiment of his own unmistakable style realistic bold unflinching. a new exhibition at london's royal academy of arts assembles a chronology of self-portrait spanning freud's life and career from age 16 to his early eighty's. it's an extraordinary journey through both his process of aging the development of the artist from a young boy to old man but also you really get under the skin of his practice and how he developed as an artist the changes in his painting the style the technique. by meticulously charting his own image lucian freud places himself in the company of the great masters of self-portrait rembrandt and bingo. this drawing fred made of himself as a student shows the young artist in shock or is it ecstasy a few years later his 1st major self-portrait fashions him as the great painter he hopes to become. born in 1922 in berlin as the grandson of psychoanalysis pioneer sigmund freud lucian and his jewish family fled germany to britain the year of hitler's rise to power. for its mature self port

exposed yet imposing the great painter lucian freud put himself to canvas as the embodiment of his own unmistakable style realistic bold unflinching. and new exhibition at london's royal academy of a.

and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture lucian freud was one of the greatest paintersof the human form there's a new exhibition in london just opened of his self portraits also coming up. a series featuring featuring artistic people from the former east germany and how they experience the fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago. and in 100 german must reads a novel that just couldn't get published in german until it 1st became a bestseller in america. lucian freud was one of the most celebrated portraits of our time and throughout his life he regularly painted self portraits to these give a fascinating insight into his psyche especially when you consider his words when asked if he was a good model for himself he said no i don't except the information that i get when i look at myself that's when the trouble starts well as an exhibition featuring all this trouble at london's royal academy of arts. exposed yet imposing the great painter lucian freud put himself to canvas as the embodiment of his own unmistakable style.

and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture lucian freud was one of the greatest painters of the human form there's a new exhibition in london just opened of his self portraits also coming up a series featuring featuring artistic people from the former east germany and how they experience the full of the berlin wall 30 years ago. and in 100 german must reads a novel that just couldn't get published in german until it 1st became a bestseller in america. lucian freud was one of the most celebrated portraits just of our time and throughout his life he regularly painted self portraits to these give a fascinating insight into his psyche especially when you consider his words when asked if he was a good model for himself he said no i don't except the information that i get when i look at myself that's when the trouble starts while an exhibition featuring all this trouble london's royal academy of arts. exposed yet imposing the great painter lucian freud put himself to canvas as the embodiment of his own unmistakable style realistic bold unflinching. and new exhibition at london'

exposed yet imposing the great painter lucian freud put himself to canvas as the embodiment of his own unmistakable style realistic bold unflinching. and new exhibition at london's royal academy.

bbc london has been given rare access to the "untouched" studio of the late lucian freud, who died atn always worked holding a palette. and he‘d mixed the colours on his palette and then the colours he did not want he would then scrape off the palette and put them on the wall. let‘s take a look at the travel situation now... on the tubes, there are severe delays on the circle line due to late finishing engineering works. the district line has no service between turnham green and richmond due to a signal. there are minor delays on the hammersmith and city line also due to a signal failure. and the london overground has no service between gunnersbury and richmond. jubilee line mechanical issue with trains. on the roads... in wandsworth, the a3 west hill remains closed between the upper richmond road and tibbets corner for gas works. now the weather with kate. good morning. it‘s quite a chilly start for some of us this morning. we had a clear sky last night, which in turn has led to mist and fog, as well, but once it lifts, we have a day of fairly decent sunny spells. just a gentle south