By Lambe Lamis 
Britain’s most common artist, Lucian Freud was born on December 08, 1922, in Berlin, to Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud and Nee Brasch. Freuds moved to England in 1931 and in 1939, Lucian became a British citizen. The painter researched art at the Cedric Morris East Anglian College of Painting and Drawing in Dedham. He also studied at the Goldsmiths School, University of London.
Lucian Freud held his first solo artwork exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery, in 1944. His earlier functions were regarded as ‘Surreal,’ because of his unconventional compositions, depicting vegetation, animals, and men and women. All through 1949-54, he improved his design of painting, now concentrating much more on portraits and nudes, employing impasto. A person these kinds of masterpiece of this metamorphosed type is “Woman with a White Doggy.” To reduce hues from blending with each other, Freud would use alternate brushes for distinct shades, or would cleanse up his brush following each stroke. Today, Freud is recognized as the finest ‘Figurative’ painter of modern periods.
Lucian Freud would use close friends and acquaintances as versions, relatively than specialists, as he preferred the ‘real’ & ‘natural’ thoughts & feels of the person captured on his canvas. He would use the exact same individuals as styles for his different paintings, in buy to establish a rapport with them at an aesthetically physical and psychological stage. He considered that professional styles are a ‘bit of artfulness.’ His painting, “Girl with a White Canine” lays a good deal of anxiety on the sitter’s deal with and human body. Lucian exploited bold postures (with one particular breast of the female hanging out) and the blended expressions thereon, without having the slightest hesitation.
Lucian’s “Woman with A White Pet,” is a much-acclaimed painting, which he painted during 1951-1952. The female in this painting was his very first wife Kathleen (Kitty) Garman, the daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman. The portrait was designed when Kitty was pregnant. Kitty posed for the oil on canvass portrait in a chartreuse dressing robe that unknowingly slips down her right shoulder exposing a breast. Freud has, in a outstanding way captured the multitude of thoughts that traverse Kitty’s experience at that moment, which includes self esteem, maturity, and to some extent a sense of apprehension. The painting virtually provides one a experience of getting an emotional narrative.
Freud applied clean, linear Ingresque strokes to complete this masterpiece, which reveals an unusual juxtaposition involving the hair of the bulldog, the wool of Kitty’s dressing gown, and the silk bedspread. According to the painter, he has been thriving in capturing the minute, in its place of just staying instrumental in painting it. It is explained that Kathleen herself acquired this portray having to pay a handsome quantity, as she did not want it to access the palms of some pervert.