For painters in particular, it’s a means of evolving ideas long before brush touches canvas; and, in some cases, like Lucian Freud’s, it’s an abiding obsession. The artist (1922-2011) was “almost ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London showcases drawings and etchings from throughout the British ...

The National Portrait Gallery is exploring a less familiar aspect of the artist’s work through his archive and recently acquired etchings ...

The marvellous, insightful Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at London’s National Portrait Gallery shows that he ranks ...

The stormy relationship of Sigmund Freud and the neuropathologist and psychiatrist Theodor Meynert helped define the origins ...

Drawing is much more to an artist than just another medium. For a painter particularly, it’s the way they evolve ideas and find out who they are as an artist before brush even hits canvas. From ...

Following a wayward adolescence, Freud emerged during the 1940s as a boy wonder. He drew in a hyper-realistic manner that was as spiky as the sea hollies and thistles he loved to depict, and ...

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting — A crude but illuminating treasure trove - 4/5 This show concentrates on Freud’s drawings, and while they were clearly casual works compared to his paintings, ther ...

The Freud Museum in Hampstead, north London, is where Sigmund Freud lived the last year of his life—the father of ...

A quote that has circulated on the internet for at least a decade has been attributed to a number of people—most notably to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The quote says: “Before you ...

In times of political upheaval, state-sponsored violence and collective trauma, psychoanalysis offers tools for making sense ...