What is Lucian Freud?
[[File:LucienFreud.jpg|thumb|Lucian Freud]] '''Lucian Michael Freud''' (December 8, 1922 — July 20, 2011) was a [[British people|Anglo]]-[[Germany|German]] [[painter]]. He is regarded as having been one of the greatest painters of the human form.<ref name=wp>{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lucian-freud-british-painter-of-the-human-form-dies-at-88/2011/07/21/gIQAueRlSI_story.html |title=Lucian Freud, British painter of the human form, dies at 88 |first= Matt|last=Schudel |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=July 22, 2011 |publisher=[[Washington Post Company|WPC]] |location=[[Washington, DC|Washington DC]] |issn=0190-8286 |accessdate=July 22, 2011}}</ref> He was born in [[Berlin]] in 1922, and moved with his family to [[England]] in 1933 to escape from the [[Nazi]]s. He became a British citizen in 1939. His father, an [[architect]], was the son of [[Sigmund Freud]].<ref name=wp/> During [[World War II]], Freud [[Education|studied]] [[art]] as well as working as a [[sailor]] in the British [[Merchant Navy]]. His brother was [[Clement Freud]] (1924-2009). He painted [[portrait]]s which have been described as being brutally [[honest]]; he did not try to make people look good.<ref name=wp/> He often painted them [[nude]], with the faces staring straight ahead. He used thick layers of [[paint]], [[impasto]], using [[colour]]s of [[green]], [[grey]] and [[purple]], which he blended to with pink to suggest skin color.<ref name=wp/> He was popular for a while in the 1960's, but his work was rediscovered in 1987 after an exhibition in the US. In 2008 his painting “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” was sold for [[United States dollar|US$]]33.6 million — the most ever paid for a painting by a living artist.<ref name=wp/> This painting was of a [[obesity|fat]] nude [[woman]] a[[sleep]] on a [[couch]].<ref name=wol>{{cite web |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/arts-in-wales/2011/07/22/artist-lucian-freud-dies-at-88-91466-29101307/ |title=Artist Lucian Freud dies at 88 |fir