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| Part of The South Bank Show series, this documentary about British painter Francis Bacon is directed by David Hinton. The programme includes interviews with the artist, commentary by South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, a tour of his studio and the drinking and gambling haunts Bacon frequented in London. |
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I think yo have to listen what he says about his work. He paints the constant changing human beeings do when they grow old , the movement mentally and physically that happens minute by minute when we reach the death. Aging makes us ugly, it sort of destroys the beauty and we have to adapt ourself to it that we do badly and struggle. There is a whole industry that battles against growing old, beauty industry and surgeons and all these chemicals we suff in our bodies: we like to do like ancient egyptians, preserve our body .... and our minds too for ever at least we hope so. Bacon makes an images from a creature that ment to be perfect but failed and was cast away from paradise. Now this creature struggles in the influens of TIME. Originally there was only eternity and joy. Now only struggle and agony in everybody and everywhere you look. The brutal truth of life in affection of time. They are not only images or pictures. It is trying to describe or visualise the origin of our living process itself. We were not meant to be like this, like animals. I think there is this metafysic part in his paintings that you not ever think or see. This one glimpse or hectic moment one lives on earth. Pure hell sometimes. Hardly ever joy to vast amount of peoples in the earth.
Well 23-05-2009 | |
I find Bacon and his work,fascinating,a true genius...in the sense of originality,a stunning technique and a fresh,exciting outlook,on the representation of form and expression...
Geoffrey Cervantes. 21-05-2009 | |
Did anyone ever say to him...your name is bacon, and you paint like bacon?
Toothy Gypsy 20-05-2009 | |
Love thew paintings, dislike the gold frames, they are so Baroque.
Clive 20-05-2009 | |
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