Robert Hughes, Art Critic Whose Writing Was Elegant and Contentious, Dies at 74 About artists he admired, like Lucian Freud, he cast the stakes in nothing less than heroic terms. “Every inch of the surface has to be won,” he wrote of Freud’s canvases in The Guardian in 2004, “must be argued through, bears the traces of curiosity and inquisition — above all, takes nothing for granted and demands active engagement from the viewer as its right.”
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:25:25 +0000
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