Othello

... - Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London then, with greater success, at Cedric Morris' East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, - Freud's first solo exhibition was in 1944 at the Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery. - Freud's early paintings are often associated with surrealism and depict people and plants in unusual juxtapositions. These works are usually painted with relatively thin paint - From the 1950s he began to paint portraits, often nudes, to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, employing a thicker impasto. With this technique he would often clean his brush after each stroke. - Often Freud's portraits depict only the sitter, sometimes sprawled naked on the floor or on a bed or alternatively juxtaposed with something else, as in Girl with a white dog and naked man with rat - Freud is one of the best known British artists working in a traditional representational

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