PORTRAIT OF LUCIAN FREUD FROM PRIVATE PARTS
"Jonathan Yeo’s tribute to Lucian Freud has been achieved by pasting together cuttings from pornographic magazines to form a portrait.
Art world insiders see the collage as a daring image that both reflects one of Freud’s best known works, his 1985 self-portrait, and reveals Yeo’s own naked ambition.
Yeo, 38, whose previous subjects have included the Duke of Edinburgh and Tony Blair in more traditional hues, said last week: “It’s a tribute to an artist I greatly admire. I have done it this way because Freud himself has made his reputation – at least in part – by his portraits of both men and women naked. It’s a light-hearted tribute and not in any way an insult.”
Charles Saumarez Smith, who was director of the National Portrait Gallery in the 1990s, said, “Yeo is the young rising star of portraiture and Freud is the acknowledged master. It’s a homage that has its tradition in the past. Painters would quite often do portraits of other artists they admired. Admittedly this one of Freud is rather different as Yeo has used this other dimension – people’s private parts.”
The picture of Freud, which goes on show this week at an exhibition in central London, is a return to a technique Yeo used last year for a picture of President George W Bush"
Art world insiders see the collage as a daring image that both reflects one of Freud’s best known works, his 1985 self-portrait, and reveals Yeo’s own naked ambition.
Yeo, 38, whose previous subjects have included the Duke of Edinburgh and Tony Blair in more traditional hues, said last week: “It’s a tribute to an artist I greatly admire. I have done it this way because Freud himself has made his reputation – at least in part – by his portraits of both men and women naked. It’s a light-hearted tribute and not in any way an insult.”
Charles Saumarez Smith, who was director of the National Portrait Gallery in the 1990s, said, “Yeo is the young rising star of portraiture and Freud is the acknowledged master. It’s a homage that has its tradition in the past. Painters would quite often do portraits of other artists they admired. Admittedly this one of Freud is rather different as Yeo has used this other dimension – people’s private parts.”
The picture of Freud, which goes on show this week at an exhibition in central London, is a return to a technique Yeo used last year for a picture of President George W Bush"
This piece is not only a collage, but a great representation of a favourite artist's work of mine, done by a now plausible contestant to be a favourite artist of mine! Dangerously edgy, I don't see this work as shocking, but in fact highly interesting, the effort, time, technique and choices made to create this piece are truly wonderful, it's inspiring to see an artist ready to put a cheeky twist on the age old homage, and to do it so well. The accuracy, attention to the integrity of Freud's piece, choice of piece and involvement of the own artist's subtle dark satire all but has enthralled me.
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© Dean Ross.
© Dean Ross.
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