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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 15 March 2007 à 20:55" Well, of course, we are meat, we are potencial carcasses. If I go into a butcher's shop I always think it's surprising that I wasn't there instead of the animal." Francis Bacon
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 28 February 2007 à 16:20Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), 1961 Francis Bacon In Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), a naked body on hands and feet is finding its way around a bare space. Human or animal? The ambiguity creates tension and confronts the viewer with the...
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 28 February 2007 à 15:18Henrietta Moraes From the 1960s on, Bacon regularly painted portraits of his drinking cronies. Moraes said she had been the subject of more than twenty, including the 1969 triptych entitled Three Studies of Henrietta Moraes. Bacon met Henrietta Moraes at the Colony Room, the bar in Soho (London)...
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 27 February 2007 à 13:07...composer Alan Rawsthorne, a drinking friend of Constant Lambert. Isabel then became a model for Francis Bacon. He was a noted homosexual, yet according to Paris Match, Francis Bacon said "You know, I also made love to Isabel Rawsthorne, a very beautiful woman who was Derain's model and Georges...
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 21 February 2007 à 12:09Francis Bacon From muybridge " The Human Figure in Motion: Women Emptying a bowl of water / Paralytic child walking on all fours."
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 19 February 2007 à 18:02Francis Bacon once said: " I think it's the slight remove from fact, which returns me onto the fact more violently. Through the photographic image I find myself beginning to wander into the image and unlock what I think of as its reality more than I can by looking at it. And photographs are...
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 16 February 2007 à 10:47...frame: 2198 x 1690 x 82 mm painting Purchased 1963 The body is often highly distorted in Bacon’s paintings. In this picture, for example, parts of the head and lower body are almost illegible. Bacon has used texture and visceral colours to describe the flesh, bone and blood of the head....
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 16 February 2007 à 10:44Untitled ( reclining figure ) 1960
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Written by MMaxi in Francis Bacon on 13 February 2007 à 14:20Painting Title: Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh V 1957 Francis Bacon Famous Irish born English artist - 20th Century Painter About the Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh V Painting Francis Bacon did several versions of the Vincent van Gogh painting.