In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the ...
Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of the School of the Arts, University of Hull In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis ... up here. Bacon’s is an art of intimacy ...
The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated ... be captured by dialogue and narration. Bacon is his favorite artist. This makes sense. Bacon, after all, is a painter ...
their new documentary on the life and work of Francis Bacon He has been referred to and listed as a British artist for the majority of his life and career and revered as an icon of 20th century ...
An artist who witnessed the freneticism before ... known to Bacon – his friends and lovers. A visitor studies Francis Bacon, 1967 by J.S. Lewinski. David Parry The moral perturbation of seeing ...
The sixth in our series of subscriber-only podcasts features Nadine Shah talking about how Robert Palmer's 1994 album Honey helped through her Mum's illness and, as unlikely as it sounds, how it has ...
Visitors to Francis Bacon: Human Presence are greeted by his studies of papal figures and men in suits. In these works, Bacon encased his figures in the suggestions of boxes, which are known as “space ...
Stephen Wakelam's play for Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow, reveals how Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to have a solo exhibition in the Soviet Union. This is the story of an ...