One of the greatest contemporary artist in Britain, Freud is an Expressionist painter, also the grandson of the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud. He was born in Germany and graduated from the British Saint Union Painting School. He is famous for his strong realistic portraits, especially nudes, and has influenced a large number of Chinese painters such as Chen Danqing, Liu Xiaodong, Chao Ge and Mao Yan. The style of his works is crude and painterly, the structure of the paintings is tight and powerful, and the carcass depicted is usually tight and full.