BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6071@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20210724 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220117 DTSTAMP:20211110T182002Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-lucian-freud-in-f ocus/ SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Lucian Freud: Real Lives DESCRIPTION:\n\nSupported by Tate Liverpool Patrons\nAdult £10 Concession £5\nOpen Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 – 18.00\nFor public information call + 44(0)151 702 7400\, visit tate.org.uk/liverpool or follow @tateliverpool \n\nThis summer\, Tate Liverpool will stage a significant presentation of Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) artworks\, the first in the North West in over thirty years. Widely considered a master of modern portraiture\, Freud was an artist who continued to expand his exploration of paint throughout his career. This focused exhibition will feature some of the artist’s most iconic paintings and etchings as well as photographs that provide an intim ate glimpse into Freud’s life. Lucian Freud: Real Lives concentrates o n the artist’s sitters who were often friends and family\, creating clus ters of portraits of those he captured over time\, and thereby illuminatin g Freud’s technical virtuosity and stylistic development.\n\nDeeply priv ate and guarded\, it is through his work that we get to know Freud the man \, and this exhibition tracks the personal and artistic changes he went th rough\, revealing the different people that came in and out of his life ov er a prolific career spanning more than 60 years.\n\nFreud painted unapolo getic and frank celebrations of the human form\, with a focus on physicali ty that had rarely been seen before. The exhibition will include some of h is most celebrated works\, including portraits of sitters such as performa nce artist Leigh Bowery\, his first wife Kitty Garman\, his friend and lon g-time studio assistant\, the painter David Dawson\, and his mother\, Luci e Freud. Freud’s representations of people either in all the vulnerabili ty of nakedness or in a transfixing\, almost intrusive proximity\, emphasi se the subject’s humanity and he is now regarded as one of Britain’s g reat realist painters. The show also provides a rare opportunity to bring together all of the Freud works held within the Tate collection\, includin g Girl with a Kitten 1947 and Girl with a White Dog 1950–1.\n\nLucia n Freud: Real Lives will also feature exceptional examples of the artist ’s etchings\, bringing together some of his early experiments of the 194 0s and a substantial number of the increasingly large and complex composit ions the artist created after his rediscovery of the medium in the early 1 980s. Freud took a non-traditional\, painterly approach to printmaking\, t reating the etching plate like a canvas\, standing the copper upright on a n easel and making finely etched lines. With the artist typically depictin g the same sitters in etching and painting\, the exhibition gives a great insight into Freud’s mastery of both mediums.\n\nAlongside Freud’s wor k\, the show will feature a selection of photographs which will shed furth er light on Freud’s work and life\, revealing how intertwined these two elements were. Cecil Beaton captured Freud in the 1950s and shows him at t he start of his career. This is in sharp contrast to images later taken by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson from the early 1990s to 2010\, showing Fre ud at work with his sitters and giving a unique insight of the artist wor king in his studio.\n\nLucian Freud: Real Lives is curated by Laura Bruni \, Assistant Curator Tate Liverpool and will be accompanied by a series of events in the gallery and online.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/08/N06039_9.jpg LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L3 4BB\, Liverpool\, Un ited Kingdom GEO:53.4003;-2.9927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L 3 4BB\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tate Liverpo ol:geo:53.4003,-2.9927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210328T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR