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Sigmund Freud Research Paper

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Going back to the early 1920s until the early 2010s, we pick-up on the life of the figurative painter, Lucian Freud. This painter is a well-known Jewish figurative artist from Berlin, Germany who was “...very shy, but loved women...” and animals immensely (David Hockney 00:05:15). Most believe his love of animals, especially horses, stems from his grandfather, Sigmund Freud, being a biologist and eventually a psychoanalyst. Another reason this is believed is how Lucian approached his models, dressed or nude. Many have noted that he has an interest in his models like one would with animals and treated the nude models with clinical passiveness. Freud himself stated that “[he sees] as a biologist. When [he’s] painting people in clothes, [he’s] always thinking of naked people or animals dressed” (His 00:20:00). …show more content…

With biology on the mind, one cannot help but remember Sigmund, who was admired by Freud at a young age, and well into his adult life, “for being a biologist rather than a psychoanalyst” like he was more widely known for (John Richardson 00:18:50) . Despite this, he famous around the world “...for breaking world records in auction houses,” when selling his paintings (His 00:02:00). These world record-breaking paintings were mostly of colleagues, friends, himself, and his own family being very explicit and unflattering (His 00:01:50). Three of such models of his were his two wives, Kitty Garman and Lady Caroline Hamilton Temple Blackwood, and his mother, Lucie Brasch. Although he painted her once before her attempt at suicide, he painted her multiple times afterwards until her death in 1989 (Wikipedia). As for Kitty Garman, he painted her in a portrait style more often than not, only really painting her partially nude in Girl with a White Dog (1951) while she was pregnant (Reporter). Moving onto his second wife, Lady Blackwood, Their relationship

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