Lucian Freud Portraits- National Portrait Gallery...

So Lucian Freud finally makes an appearance at the National Portrait Gallery... I was pleased to know that an interesting exhibition in my personal opinion, was finally being held at the National Portrait Gallery, feels like quite a while since i have taken a trip down to London's finest Portrait gallery so this was my opportunity. Another hugely famous, artist Lucian Freud was said to have loved producing art of his 'friends' and 'family'. Lucian's portraits are some of the most unique and individual sets of paintings. His style and technique when using paint are exquisite, what may appear to look like simple brush strokes and maybe a few preferred colours used goes much beyond that. When looking at one of the main importances of this Lucian Freud exhibition, which was his famous 'Self Reflection', i really admire this piece, and i appreciate the amount of time and effort and strength to create such a successful piece of artwork. I was blown away with his blending of colours and detail to the ability to feel like you are there, standing right in front of him, for me i found that a great inspiration and push with my own artistic passion and talents. It is hard enough producing a piece of art work, viewers are going to acknowledge and be satisfied with anyway, to then produce a piece of artwork of a single portrait, aiming to grip the all viewers. This all being through, emotional, expression and feeling that Freud loved depicting in his work, and it is through this as well as his superb talent to paint that gained the most attention and positive feedback needed. For some art and having the gift of creativity, means expressing themselves in their art work and maybe with the styles or ways in which they represent their art, i love feeling like i am in that painting with whom ever or what ever may be presented, almost second handedly experience what ever the artist is trying to portray within in their work. For me Lucian Freud does this, i loved being up front and close to his pieces and found that before i had gone to this exhibition  knew very little about how Lucian Freud as an artist, this certainly taught me there is a much more psychological element to his style of artwork. Perfect quote below i just thought i could relate too this 

'I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.'  ~Lucian Freud~

'Reflection' Lucian Freud 1985