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The film draws heavily on the authorised biography of Bacon, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon by Daniel Farson, and is dedicated to him. It won three awards at the Edinburgh International Film Festival : Best New British Feature (director John Maybury ) and two Best British Performance awards, one for Jacobi and the other for future ...
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
The girl in the poster is Clare Shenstone, at the age of 16, an aspiring artist later influenced by Francis Bacon. [6] With its creativity and eroticism, the poster captures the sensual essence of the film, and was designed for its London release by graphic artist Alan Aldridge.
Figure with Meat is a 1954 painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon.The figure is based on the Pope Innocent X portrait by Diego Velázquez; however, in the Bacon painting the Pope is shown as a gruesome figure and placed between two bisected halves of a cow.
Thirty-two years on from Bacon’s death, this major exhibition featuring 58 paintings is an opportunity to assess if the artist described by Margaret Thatcher as “the man who does those ...
The Wrestlers after Muybridge, 1980, francis-bacon.com; David Sylvester on Francis Bacon: Text of David Sylvester’s 2001 lecture on the artist; Two Figures on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, francis-bacon.com, 5 October 2017 "Jealous Lucian Freud locked away Francis Bacon bargain", The Times, 29 January 2018 "Freud hid Bacon masterpiece ...
The Black Triptychs are a series of three triptychs painted by the British artist Francis Bacon between 1972 and 1974. Bacon admitted that they were created as an exorcism of his sense of loss following the suicide of his former lover and principal model, George Dyer. [ 1 ]
Art historian Lawrence Gowing describes the painting in terms of an attempt to capture the "pigment-figment" of close friends. While using tools such as towels to apply broad streaks of paint was chancy and indicated the gambler aspect to his personality, Bacon was sustained by a painterly ability built up during more than 25 years as an artist.