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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 ...
After all the supposed outrage we’ve seen in art over the past 20 years, there are plenty of works in this essential exhibition that fulfil Bacon’s ambition even now. Francis Bacon – Human ...
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 ...
[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews". [13] Phil Hoad of The Guardian wrote: "Francis Bacon, Greek myth and unsung script hero Dan O'Bannon are given their due in this richly obsessive film about the making of a sci-fi classic". [4]
Burroughs is the first and only documentary to be made about and with the full participation of writer William S. Burroughs. In a collaboration between Burroughs and director Howard Brookner the film explores Burroughs’ life story along with many of his contemporaries including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and Lauren Hutton.
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.
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon. The canvasses are based on the Eumenides —or Furies—of Aeschylus 's Oresteia , and depict three writhing anthropomorphic creatures set against a flat burnt orange background.
The works of several artists are featured in the ... Francis Bacon (artist) Georg Grosz; ... New York Magazine's Vulture named the film ninth best of all 87 Oscar ...