Description
I’m now not a portrait painter. If I’m the rest, I’ve at all times been an autobiographer.
Self-Portrait unearths a lifestyles in point of fact lived thru Artwork. On this quick, intimate memoir, Celia Paul movements quickly thru time in phrases and pictures, folding in her prior and provide selves. From her transfer to the Slade Faculty of Tremendous Artwork at 16, thru a profound and excessive affair with the older and higher-recognized artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her provide-day studio, she meticulously assembles the unexpected, gorgeous, haunting scenes of a lifestyles. Paul brings to her prose the similar features that she brings to her Artwork: a brutal honesty, a mild however robust depth, and an acute eye for visible element.
At its center, it is a e-book a couple of younger lady changing into an artist, with the entire sacrifices and headaches that involves. As she movements out of Freud’s shadow, and navigates the trail from muse to painter in her personal proper, Paul’s energy and identification as an artist emerge from the web page.
Self-Portrait is a uniquely arresting, poignant e-book, and a murals and literature through a unique skill.
