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After looking at some of Lucien Freud's previous works it's clear that he has become imprisioned by his own "style".
I was impressed with the strength of his heavy impastos, harsh colors and exaggerated edges in his earlier portraits of male subjects. These elements also had a place in linear compositional studies. But, the style has little flexibility. It seems to have become a formula that has entrapped him.
Maybe there's a lesson in this?
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