Lucian Freud’s Plant Portraits
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What is a plant portrait? How does it differ from the picture of a plant?
About his painting Two Plants, Lucian Freud said: “They are lots of little portraits of leaves, lots and lots of them, starting with them rather robust in the middle—greeny-blue and cream—and getting more yellow and broken”.
Drawing from the research for his book Lucian Freud Herbarium (2019, Prestel) and inspired by the exhibition Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits which he guest curated, in this talk Giovanni Aloi explores Freud’s ability to tease out the individual character of the plants he painted. He is joined by Daniel F. Hermann, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery where he curated The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Lucian Freud – New Perspectives.
Biographical information
Giovanni Aloi teaches art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. He is the author of numerous books and essays about the intersection of nature, science, and art.
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