I wanted to share a little of Lucian Freud's art. I was thinking of him the other day and did a brief google image search for some of his art. These are some of the best ones that came up. I think the old man might be Jackson Pollock but I'm not sure. I really think his portrait work is some the best I've seen. So much character in the faces-like you know them. Anyway, he's one of my favorite artists so I just wanted to share. The 'realism' of his nudes is almost disturbing at times, especially since he was apt to pose them in the most unflattering of ways.
Yesterday, after posting my tribute to Cole Porter, I decided to put together a collected works cd of his music. I got some great songs for the collection-33 tracks in all. His songs have been covered by so many artists that I only had to duplicate two of them. Here's the lineup:
1. Sinead O'Connor-You Do Something To me
2. Ray Charles-Every Time We Say Goodbye
3. Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby-Well, Did You Evah
4. Peter Cincotti-I Love Paris
5. Peter Como-Begin the beguine
6. Peggy Lee- I Get A Kick Out Of You
7. Nat King Cole-Just One of Those Things
8. Michael Buble'-I've Got You Under My Skin
9. Mel Torme-Too Darn Hot
10. Maurice Chevalier and Frank Sinatra-C'est Magnifique
11. Marilyn Monroe-My Heart Belongs To Daddy
12. Lisa Stanfield-Down in the Depths
13. Kristin Chenoweth-From the Alpha to the Omega
14. KD Lang-So Inlove
15. Julie London-You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
16. Johnny Ray- All Through the Night
17. Frank Sinatra-You'd Be So Easy To Love
18. Frank Sinatra-Night and Day
19. Ella Fitagerald- Let's Do It Let's Fall In Love
20. Eartha Kitt-Love For Sale
21. Dianne Reeves-I Concentrate On You
22. Robbie Williams-De Lovely
23. Ethel merman-Blow Gabriel Blow
24. Eartha Kitt-In The Still of the Night
25. Rosemary Clooney-You're The Top
26. Tony Bennett- Anything Goes
27. Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly- True Love
28. Billie Holiday- What is This Thing Called Love
29. The ANdrews Sisters-Don't Fence Me In
30. Fred Astaire- So Near and Yet So Far
31. Dianne Reeves- I've Got My Eyes On You
32. Ella Fitzgerald- Do I Love You
33. Bobby Darin- All Of You
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2 comments:
Tons of character- his nude dude reminds me of when I took figure drawing in college. One of the models was an older woman in her 80s who had modeled since the 1930s. Her skin was so loose & saggy, which sounds "ew", but she was really interesting to draw, because you got a real sense of the structure of the human form- seeing the skeleton under that thin skin. So, from an artist's standpoint, I can understand how conventional beauty (& thus predictability)can easily take a backseat to trueness of form- even if the end result is...less than "pretty". I also remember doing a portrait sketch of my grandma once on vacation, & she got mad @ me for "making her look old". She looks quite good for her age, & the drawing was what it was. She didn't appreciate my attempts to be true. So, I often shy away from portraiture- especially of people I know!
Love those portraits. Amazing, really. It's funny...I tend to prefer portraits that are more 'realistic' in style, as well - not the most flattering, but truly full of character. (Although I'd doubt if I'd like to be drawn in such a manner. lol)
What a great line-up for your comp. CD - most excellent!
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