Art institute takes walk on dark side; Horror is visualized in Bacon's brutal, beautiful paintings.(VARIETY) From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: April 9, 1999| Author: Abbe, Mary | COPYRIGHT 1999 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

An encounter with the paintings of Francis Bacon is not for the faint of heart.

The dominant British painter of the late 20th century, Bacon was a theatrical alcoholic whose bleak assessment of life's potential was shaped by his brutal childhood, the horrors of World War II and his voracious appetite for rough sex. Biography invariably intrudes into any encounter with Bacon's work, since many of his paintings depict friends and lovers who were apparently undisturbed by t...

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