This week’s ‘Stop, Look, Listen’ might be just a little Freud centred..
STOP.
Lucian Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. 9th February- 27 May 2012
Grandson of Sigmund Freud and one of the country’s most influential artists of his generation, Lucian Freud was renowned for his portraits, such as ‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’ and ‘Naked Man with Back View’. He was also famous for his portrait of the Queen, which he refused to paint in any other style but his own, and the supermodel Kate Moss, who posed for him in 2002. This retrospective exhibition marks an opportunity for a review of his work after his death last year.
LOOK.
A Dangerous Method by David Cronenberg.
Starring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender. Set at the beginning of the 20th Century, this film follows Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung’s road to dispute in their respective Psychoanalytic theories.
LISTEN.
Listen to Saturday’s play again on iPlayer, or look forward to ‘The Wolf Man’ on the 18th February.
Writer and playwright Deborah Levy has dramatised two of Freud’s iconic case studies, ‘Dora’ and ‘The Wolf Man’. ‘Dora’, set in 1899, finds a father imploring Sigmund Freud to treat his daughter after discovering her intention to end her life. ‘The Wolf Man’ focuses on 24 year old Sergei Pankejeff, a depressed son of a wealthy Russian landowner.
