Artist field note

Lucian Freud

Flesh without flattery.

Reflection with Two Children by Lucian Freud — Example from the series
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Reflection with Two Children

1965

The viewpoint is awkward and the family grouping unsettled. Familiarity becomes strange.

The five in one idea

Freud made the physical fact of another person impossible to ignore.