Lucian Freud.

"The philosophical emotion of an artist lost in feeling but with in-touch consciousness." - Dan Zybala

Lucian Freud died the 20th of July this year leaving behind a great deal of work on the casualties of portraiture and the way he lived his life through studies of facial expressions and the use of pale colours. Cousin to famous philosopher, Sigmund Freud, the deep sense of understanding in the artistic careers of both showcase the reality of differences in psychology and human nature. Appearing suttlely through movements of matter in both signs of understanding, leads to assemble a fast array of thought processes in the body of works. In his self portrait, the dull levels of value prove to show a depressed attitude for the way he experiences his own self amongst the light of somewhat neutral conditions. The hand structure and gesture of tightened grip of his neck tie, show the insecurity he finds in his own mental state, using a form of self developmental disregards for his weak confidence in the imagery. Even his eyes and cheeks show the sympathetic feeling he must imagine in his own resemblance of both self worth and self intuition. Leaving behind the portrait paintings of his career show the true representation of what his life must have experienced in his own state of reasons, which I believe to be a perception of nihilism; a state of nothingness.