LUCIAN FREUD.... DISCUSS??? EXPLICIT ART.

Freud's early paintings are often associated with surrealismand depict people, plants and animals in unusual juxtapositions. Theseworks are usually painted with relatively thin paint, but from the1950s he began to paint portraits, often nudes, to the almost completeexclusion of everything else, employing a thicker impasto. With this technique he would often clean his brush after each stroke. The colours in these paintings are typically muted.Freud's portraits often depict only the sitter, sometimes sprawlednaked on the floor or on a bed or alternatively juxtaposed withsomething else, as in Girl With a White Dog (1951-52) and Naked Man With Rat (1977-78)<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup>.The use of animals in his compositions is widespread, and oftenfeatures pet and owner. Other examples of portraits with both animalsand people in Freud's work include Guy and Speck (1980-81), Eli and David (2005-06) and Double Portrait (1985-86).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[2]</sup>He has a special passion for horses, having enjoyed riding at school inDarlington, where he sometimes even slept in the stables.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[3]</sup> His portraits solely of horses include Grey Gelding (2003), Skewbald Mare (2004), and Mare Eating Hay (2006).Freud's subjects are often the people in his life; friends, family,fellow painters, lovers, children. To quote the artist: &quot;The subjectmatter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory andsensuality and involvement, really.&quot;I once went to a Lucian Freud exhibition at the Tate in Liverpool, as I went in two women were coming out, they were both very outraged. &quot;Just sheer pornography, thats all it is&quot; they were very upset. This is a very explicit painting and I am curious about your opinion.  Not sure about the role the rat plays. Is it an analogy? is it porn? or is it a very beautifully painted picture. ?