Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)

[Corpsey]

Screenshotting an essay I read last night about Bacon. (From About Modern Art: Critical Essays 1948-2000 by David Sylvester.)

 

[catalog]

Sounds interesting for the bacon fans

The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter review – last rites for a great artist

A fragmentary, poetic reimagining of Bacon’s last days in Madrid reads like a private communion with the painter

www.theguardian.com

 

[sus]

Absolutely garbage doc I was dreading clicking this thread in case you liked it Version I wasn't sure our friendship could take it

 

[sus]

I read a book about him once... wasn't that good. It was written by this guy who had discovered that his uncle (or something), mainly a painter and decorator but a part-time rent boy (I think), was a peripheral figure on that Soho fifties scene and wrote a kind of biography of his life over that time. Basically (reading between the lines) I think it was a few anecdotes stretched out to make a book and it tried to make the uncle a more central character than he was. I did like the story at the start about the main character meeting Bacon for the first time though and him (Bacon) being introduced as a painter, and the uncle, having no idea who he was, said "Oh really, me too".

Good Woody Allen bit. "oh I just love Bacon." "You do? I thought the Jews had a thing about pork"

 

[IdleRich]

Oh my goodness...