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Francis Bacon, National Portrait Gallery: the modern master at his most raw and revealing
Faces, in his pictures, are mangled and smeary ... perverse – which is plain from the off in Francis Bacon: Human Presence. Study for a Portrait (1949) isn’t a study for a portrait at all ...
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Before David Lynch, there was Francis Bacon
Lynch was dark. What he was mostly concerned with was how images can haunt us. In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks ...
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Keeper of a Painter’s Secrets? Or a Fantasist and a Trickster?
Image A photograph of Joule and Francis Bacon, taken in 1986 by Peter Beard. Joule said Bacon signed the picture in orange paint.Credit...Peter Beard, via Barry Joule According to Joule ...
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Francis Bacon - Interview
his application of paint and the glazing of his pictures, as well as the motivations behind his career. David Sylvester was one of the most important critics to champion Francis Bacon. This is the ...
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Review of Francis Bacon exhibit: The Human presence
This is of course an exhibition of Francis Bacon's work as an artist, but I also appreciated the choice to present his personality to the viewer, bringing him to life by including pictures and ...