Sen, śmierć i chart. Doświadczenie pasywności w obrazach Luciana Freuda
Sleep, death and hound. The experience of passivity in Lucian Freud’s paintings

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at the problem of the representation of passivity in the selected Lucian Freud paintings. Artist depicts naked men, sleeping or possibly in the state of lethargy, accompanied by sleeping whippet dogs. Human nakedness appear as shameless, almost “animalistic”, contrasting thus sharply with the dog’s graceful and free poses. Artist claimed that he wanted to represent human animality, his nakedness and corporeality. His works disrupt traditional man-animal, culture-nature dichotomies. Man and dog together form a peculiar community of passivity, they accompany each other in the state of motionless rest and withdrawal from the world.

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