| The British painter Freud past away in 2011. It turns out that he has become one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century in Europe and in the worldwide as well. In the 1950s, when he has turned away from the modern mainstream to traditional research, he was regarded as just a marginal character. Even in the late 1980s and early 1990s, while Figurative Painting staged a comeback, his effort was simply regarded as a ’deathbed struggle’. Nowadays, while it gives us a clearer picture of the 20th Century, he has become as important as Andy Warhol, Boyce and other modernism and post modernism famous artists. In Freud’s concept, all of his paintings are portraits which include nudes and animals. What kind of artist he is? Of erotic exposure or decadent? Of Expressionism or Psychological Analysis? If looking at him from different angles, it is possible that people are with all kinds of confusion and speculation while appreciating and understanding his works.Thus, the dissertation includes the following six parts to uncover the confusion:The background of British society and art around World War Ⅱ. Jewish Intellectuals’ exile and position. Freud’s home environment and his growth experience. The interact between he and the ’School of London’ and his other friends. His artistic development and main features. The enlightenment the he brought out to the world. The thesis emphasized that he had smashed his own complete artistic style and ponder over with a even more serious attitude when facing to the art of painting. He has paid his total attention and intuition to continuous observation and repeated construction for searching hidden truth in painting of reality and life of intensity and duration.
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