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It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies , particularly neutral point of view. February Portsmouth , England, UK. Painting sculpture printmaking. Biography [ edit ]. Printmaking [ edit ]. Works [ edit ]. Public collections [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Archived from the original on 11 December Retrieved 11 December The London Gazette Supplement.

National Museums Liverpool. Archived from the original on 10 May County Museum of Art. Le Brun employs a mastery of touch and colour alongside a profound understanding of art history and a wide range of visual, musical and literary sources. He has remained consistent in adhering to what he feels to be the essential poetry and pleasure of painting for its own sake, led by intuition and visual imagination and resistant to external justification.

His interest in the formal possibilities of painting has led recently to the development of modular compositions from single pieces through to large and highly complex canvases, triptychs and monumental multipart paintings, extending the limits of abstract pictorial composition. A heightened awareness of the physicality of the painting process with its dramatic tension between revealing and covering, has been a central feature of his work that unites all its phases whether abstract or figurative.

Between and he served as a trustee of the Tate and subsequently of the National Gallery, a period which saw his involvement in the radical developments of Tate at Bankside, Liverpool and St. Ives as well as the masterplan and re-development of the east wing of the National Gallery. In the same year he was elected Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy.

He was elected President of the Royal Academy in December He stepped down from being President on 10th December Photogravure with etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping. Photogravure, etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping.