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In Lucian Freud's painting Two Irishmen in W11, the bare floorboards of his studio support a white armchair in which he has seated a big, ochre-faced man in a dark suit. Just behind him stands a younger figure with unkempt hair, a dazed expression and a Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
As the wife of one of Britain’s best-known and most popular public figures, Sir Peter Parker, chairman of British Rail, 1976-83, Jill Parker might have led a busy enough life. But she had her own career too, as a London GP, and a mother of four; and Full Article at Times Online
A woman looks at a Francis Bacon painting during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome November 11, 2009. Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting... View Photo »
I like to look at paintings mainly, like those of Francis Bacon. Or Mapplethorpe, Newton, and Penn
How London’s counterculture movements changed the face of the UK forever. Start it with Francis Bacon. Start it with Bacon and his cronies sitting in a dirty-windowed, dusty-bottled pub in Soho in the years after the war. Sitting drinking and swearing a Full Article at Herald Scotland
The Glow loves balls. Not testicles, per se, but the sort of balls that Jessica Rylan has. Sterling, uncompromising artistic balls. Consider that her music is a bit like a glowing ball (singular), the kind that would bob above the words of a sing-along Full Article at cokemachineglow
Something over a year ago, Mr. Louis Bromfield, in the Freeman ("The Triumph of the Egghead," December 1, 1952) defined the word egghead. It was designed to describe a character who pretends to the title of philosopher — a sort of professional intellect Full Article at Ludwig von Mises Institute
A man walks next to a Francis Bacon (L) painting and a Caravaggio painting during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome November 11, 2009. Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand... View Photo »
Oh please, come on! Francis Bacon could no more have written Shakespeare than he could fly.
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power) -- Sir Francis Bacon. The next edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is less than two weeks away and it is seeking submissions! Can you help by sending URLs for Full Article at ScienceBlogs
William T. Wiley had no intention of riffing on Francis Bacon, bank bailouts and tea baggers when he began the painting that became "So Channeling Bacon & a Little Saw Sage as well at Cafe Domay Go." That's just where the picture wanted to go, with a l Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle
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A man walks next to a Francis Bacon (L) painting and a Caravaggio painting during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome November 11, 2009. Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in a new exhibition, connecting...
View Photo »A woman looks at a Francis Bacon painting during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome November 11, 2009. Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity...
View Photo »A couple look up as they stand next to a Francis Bacon painting during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome November 11, 2009. Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in a new exhibition, connecting their...
View Photo »Visitors to 'Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective', a major retrospective of British artist Francis Bacon, look at paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a press preview in New York on May 18, 2009. The May 20 to August 16 exhibit, celebrates the 100th anniversary of...
View Photo »A visitor looks at the painting "Head III, 1949" by artist Francis Bacon on the eve of the opening of the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC 2009) in Paris October 21, 2009. The FIAC runs from October 22 - 25 in the French capital.
View Photo »England Rugby World Cup delegation From left, Commercial Director Paul Vaughan, Chief Executive Francis Bacon, Tournament Director Terry Burwell and Finance Director Nick Eastwood stand with the Webb Ellis Trophy during the 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cup announcement at the Burlington Hotel,...
View Photo »British artist Damien Hirst poses for photographers in front of his paintings "Skull, Shark's Jaw and Iguana on a Table" (2008)(L), and "Shark's Jaw, Skull and Iguana on a Table" (2008), in London October 13, 2009. 25 of Hirst's new paintings are on display at London's Wallace collection.
View Photo »A woman looks at a Francis Bacon painting during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome November 11, 2009. Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity...
View Photo »I like to look at paintings mainly, like those of Francis Bacon. Or Mapplethorpe, Newton, and Penn
Oh please, come on! Francis Bacon could no more have written Shakespeare than he could fly.
It’s an interesting idea but there is no hard evidence linking the Earl of Oxford, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or anybody else you want to include, as the ‘true’ author of Shakespeare’s works.
The sort of things we accept without question about Francis Bacon or Picasso but they also run through Henry Moore's work as well.
It was not until 1965 that I really found a clear direction of my own ... The theme of the figure in landscape inspired by Poussin, Keith Vaughan and Francis Bacon became the basis of my subject matter. The current movements of the mid-Sixties influenced me, Pop art, optical art and colour field abstrac...
I believe in Max Ernst, Delvaux, Dalí, Titian, / Goya, Leonardo, Vermeer, Chirico, Magritte, / Redon, Dürer, Tanguy, the Facteur Cheval, / the Watts Towers, Böcklin, Francis Bacon, and all the invisible artists / within the psychiatric institutions of the planet.
Francis Bacon meets Adrian Mole
A long time ago it rightly became an important contribution to the vibrancy of the country’s culture. The range of films has been really breathtaking but perhaps many will find it hard to forget the memory of Lord Bragg stoically asking his more or less sober questions of Francis Bacon as all around him...
We had a lot of very expensive technical equipment in that basement, but the thing is that equipment can be replaced using insurance, but with a Louis leBrocquy, a watercolour, a Francis Bacon? You can’t ask them to repaint the same painting
It's like Francis Bacon meets The Lord of the Rings meets timber meets cashmere
Ipsa scientia potestas est. - Wissen selbst ist Macht. (Francis Bacon)
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