... characters. There are traces of Francis Bacon, in whose London social circles Crozier once moved, in the tortured visceral forms as well as the velocity and skilful imprec...
... connects some of the biggest names of the past 100 years
Tate Britain, London 28 February – 27 August 2018
by EMILY SPICER
What a treat it is to see Francis Bacon...
... of a patient, that is Francis Bacon, who passed away shortly before Hirst created this monument to him.
One of the more recent acquirements of the Hirshhorn to be includ...
... outstanding artists in every context in which they might be assessed”, Sylvester above all recognised them as the heirs of Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon for the power...
... that is strange and dark, that foreshadows the twisted visages in Francis Bacon’s work. And it is this gothic menace that inspired Roald Dahl to write a short story call...
... medley of mediums and subjects, but it covers such a wide range of artists as to ask why so many who qualify were omitted. (Francis Bacon’s twisted Popes, anyone?) And i...
... the Crusades and thus participated in the relationship between east and west that continues to underpin world affairs today. Longo’s large-scale translations of past mas...
... Francis Bacon (1909-92), and Alberto Giacometti (1901-66). How does their worldview inform your work?
GB: It is perhaps very difficult for the current generation to comp...
... to Francis Bacon and David Hockney and their “most fearless depictions of male same-sex desire in the years before 1967”. Opposite Bacon’s Figures in a Landscape (19...
... in and a smattering of Francis Bacon. Two sausage-like beings with tubes of toothpaste for penises perform mutual acts of oral sex, washroom graffiti – “queer”, “q...