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Cover story: Demon lover Screaming popes, tormented faces - there's a lot of unexplained anguish in Francis Bacon's paintings, says Philip Hoare. Can new revelations about his torturous relationships shed any light on the subject?
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Sometime in the mid-1980s in South Kensington, I saw Francis Bacon
hopping on the back of a bus. I stared in recognition, nonplussed at
the apparition, in the flesh, of Britain's most famous living artist,
riding on public transport. I suppose I must have gazed too long, for
his eyes stared back, out of a high-coloured, slapped cherub's face.
Was he angry? Or was it a come-on? I'm still not quite sure. But in
retrospect, that brief encounter seems symbolic of Bacon's life: so
public a figure,...
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An Appreciation Of Francis Bacon
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; DISCUSSIONS OF RECENT BOOKS AN APPRECIATION OF FRANCIS BACON By JOHN PORTMAN Francis Bacon. By Perez Zagorin. Princeton. $29.95 In the sumptuously appointed Master's Lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge University hang adjacent to one another portraits of Francis Bacon and Elizabeth I. This
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Art exhibition review: Francis Bacon: Raw power of small faces
Scotland on Sunday
; Francis Bacon, portraits and heads Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh EVERYONE has an opinion about Francis Bacon. On his death in 1992 he was hailed by the chattering classes as 'probably the greatest British painter since Turner'. Yet for others, Bacon's art was, and is, anathema
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Oh, the horror: Munch's influence screaming through Francis Bacon exhibit
Chicago Sun-Times
; MILWAUKEE -- Try to conjure the work of art that most perfectly captures the horror of the 20th century and what comes to mind, probably, is actually an image from the previous 100 years: Edvard Munch's "The Scream," painted in 1893. The work, now so famous as to have penetrated the pop-cultural
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"FRANCIS BACON AND THE TRADITION OF ART"
Artforum
; "FRANCIS BACON AND THE TRADITION OF ART" KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, VIENNA Francis Bacon, the crown jewel of British painting, lived through most of the twentieth century, from 1909 to 1991, earning in a good fifty years of activity a reputation as an existentialist on account of his often
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Visual Arts: Francis Bacon: the man who put the pain into painting?
The Independent - London
; Oh-oh, it's that man again. Mad Frankie's back in town. But what, asks our Art Critic, does he look like this time round? It's nearly six years since Francis Bacon died, aged 82, with a good 50 years of painting behind him, and that might well be period enough for views to settle. They haven't at
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 "Morning Edition (NPR)")
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Controversial Francis Bacon Biopic
Morning Edition (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 BOB EDWARDS, HOST: Francis Bacon has been called one of Britain's most important modern painters and one of this century's most vile. Bacon's portraits made people look like trapped animals in an eerie light. In his personal life he was proud to be vulgar and violent and stridently gay.
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 "Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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THE DARK SIDE: An Albright-Knox exhibit of Francis Bacon's paintings provide a chilling mirror of 20th century violence.
Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
; Byline: Colin Dabkowski / May 8--On the first hot and cloudless Saturday of Spring 2007, the steps of the Albright- Knox Art Gallery played host to a wedding party. Tuxedoed groomsmen and scintillating bridesmaids peered into the waters of Hoyt Lake, smiling wide for pictures and dancing down the
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The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly
; Stephen A. McKnight. The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xii + 194 pp. index. illus. bibl. $37.50. ISBN: 0-8262-1609-9. The title of Stephen McKnight's book raises a question. Anyone who has read Francis Bacon's writings will have
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EDINBURGH: ART: So take a good look at my face Francis Bacon Portraits Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art EDINBURGH
The Independent on Sunday
; In an interview with David Sylvester in 1975, Francis Bacon suddenly stopped and said, 'I loathe my own face.' As if to head off the question that would inevitably follow " Then why do you paint so many self-portraits? " Bacon continued, 'I go on painting it only because I haven't got any other
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Approaching Bacon. (Francis Bacon exhibition at the Pushkin Gallery, Moscow)
The Economist (US)
; THE Francis Bacon exhibition in Moscow, which opened on September 22nd, marks a high and visible point in cultural glasnost. Mr Mikhail Gorbachev's new spirit of openness has allowed such recent well-behaved exchanges as the Pushkin/National Gallery swaps, but an exhibition by the vieux terrible of
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