Francis Bacon: A collection of 369 works (HD)
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- Francis Bacon: A collection of 369 works (HD)
Description: "Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 - 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends. His abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical cage like spaces, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon said that he saw images "in series", and his work typically focuses on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on a single motif; beginning with the 1930s Picasso-informed Furies, moving on to the 1940s male heads isolated in rooms or geometric structures, the 1950s screaming popes, and the mid-to-late 1950s animals and lone figures, the 1960s portraits of friends, the nihilistic 1970s self-portraits, and the cooler more technical 1980s late works.
Bacon took up painting in his late 30s, having drifted as an interior decorator, bon vivant and gambler. He said that his artistic career was delayed because he spent too long looking for subject matter that could sustain his interest. His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, which sealed his reputation as a uniquely bleak chronicler of the human condition. From the mid-1960s he mainly produced portraits of friends and drinking companions, either as single or triptych panels. Following the 1971 suicide of his lover George Dyer, his art became more sombre, inward-looking and preoccupied with the passage of time and death. The climax of this later period is marked by masterpieces, including his 1982's "Study for Self-Portrait" and Study for a Self-Portrait-Triptych, 1985-86.
Despite his bleak existentialist outlook, solidified in the public mind through his articulate and vivid series of interviews with David Sylvester, Bacon in person was highly engaging and charismatic, articulate, well-read and unapologetically gay. He was a prolific artist, but nonetheless spent many of the evenings of his middle age eating, drinking and gambling in London's Soho with like-minded friends such as Lucian Freud (though the two fell out in the mid-1970s, for reasons neither ever explained), John Deakin, Muriel Belcher, Henrietta Moraes, Daniel Farson, Tom Baker, and Jeffrey Bernard.
After Dyer's suicide he largely distanced himself from this circle, and while his social life was still active and his passion for gambling and drinking continued, he settled into a platonic and somewhat fatherly relationship with his eventual heir, John Edwards. The art critic Robert Hughes described him as "the most implacable, lyric artist in late 20th-century England, perhaps in all the world" and along with Willem de Kooning as "the most important painter of the disquieting human figure in the 50's of the 20th century." Francis Bacon was the subject of two Tate retrospectives and a major showing in 1971 at the Grand Palais. Since his death his reputation and market value have grown steadily, and his work is among the most acclaimed, expensive and sought-after. In the late 1990s a number of major works, previously assumed destroyed, including early 1950s popes and 1960s portraits, reemerged to set record prices at auction. In 2013 his Three Studies of Lucian Freud set the world record as the most expensive piece of art sold at auction."
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I was able to see his retrospective at the MET in 2009 and it was a very powerful experience to see the paintings I studied for years close up and personal. Visually visceral and important look into the darkside of the human condition.
I attended that show three times, the first was the morning it opened. Upon seeing his work in person, I was trembling and teary-eyed. Reproductions in books do not do his work justice.
Grandisimo artista!!!
Francis Bacon is in my top 10 favorite artists. I see the screaming Pope all the time but ive never seen these other works. Thank you.
this is an answer to my prayers, there are so many pieces on here i have never seen.. thank you. also. the music is awesome
I didn't know who Francis Bacon was until today, now I can't forget. That was amazing.
true
Moves me more than any other artist.
I call myself an Artist, but I've never heard of Francis Ba on before. These are truly haunting so far..
Beautiful and terrifying at the same time , who we truly are.
Feeding! I adore His self-portaits.
Despite the number of books of his works that I own, I have never seen many of these. Most especially the startling ones in extraordinary color combinations not common to his work. Now, do I fork over a grand for the catalog raissonne? Not yet.
I love the background is always so neat and clean but the figure is so twisted.
Thank you. I would have loved to have seen the titles of these throughout the video however.
So wonderful, incredibly beautiful. Thank you so much. Bacon was a master artist, a true artist, that believed anything was possible.
Is there anything more emotionally moving than Francis Bacon's paintings?
Indeed, there is. Which is why his paintings are so excellent.
I know that was a rhetorical question, and my answer was obtusely reductive.
Thank you for uploading! So many works I haven't seen. Very appreciative!
Portraits of Monsters.
Sadistic Sociopaths.
Ugly Creatures.
Brilliantly captured by Francis Bacon.
I always wanted to know more about Bacon. Wow. I had no idea. Dark. Lonely. Sad. I appreciate art but I’m honest. I feel certain emotions from his work on canvas.
The series of portraits starting at 16:21 are really something else. I find them both movingly beautiful and exceptionally disturbing.
I agree! Incredibly made
You can actually see the extreme care taken to flatter the subjects while being haunted by the grotesque. Beautiful in spite of the horror... or is it because of it? Amazing on every level. Thank you for this!
Fantastic... life is the best journey that can exist
I've never seen so many of his artworks and I'm all for it, also one of the rare occasions the music actually fits the mood. Already found track and artist. I like how the music will now trigger Bacon's imagery from now on - love it
Thank you for uploading!
Wonderful Thom Yorke portrait at 3:34
LMFAOOOOOO wasn’t expecting this omg
Francis said that he liked to cause 'sensation' by avoiding the build up that yyou go through to get there, just wham bam! Instantly. He succeeded I think lol, great works.
Marvelous compilation. Only I find that the beautiful, serene music didn't match the imagery (I turned sound off to watch). Contemporary to Bacon and IMO his musical counterpart was French Composer Olivier Messiaen (1908/1992) whose use of symmetrical scales and modes of limited transposition generated the darkest, most unsettling music to date. If you like Bacon's work you will likely enjoy it.
@paris parchment Possibly... who knows ;)
A great suggestion. I am listening to Olivier Messiaen from youtube. His music would be most appropriate for this video, but I don't mind the current soundtrack.
Excellent compilation!!!
This is an excellent selection. I'd love to see one from Arshile Gorky's works.
Wonderful. Thanks.
Fantastic 💡
Thank you,RIP.
A true genius!
Thank you...
Thank you. It re-aranged my DNA.
Merci pour le,partage
This is wonderful. I get it
Amazing
wow! I purchased the Catalogue raisonné and it is worth checking out if you can!
£1000 though!
if you're in Toronto you can come over and see it :)
Tyler Berry QA
Does the Catalogue raisonné have absolutely ALL of Bacons known works?
What piece of music is this?
His small portraits almost always work. The figures in rooms often work. The animals usually work., The Van Goghs are excellent; most of the popes don't work very well; though a couple do hit the target. He shows us our limited, vulnerable condition whilst trying to be straightforward and factual. I suspect that his relationship with his father; and his masochism are the subtext to the apparent insults, injuries and distortions in these pieces.
Se puede considerar al sr. B., un pintor o fue tan solo el creador de un estilo.
What is the title of the portrait at 10:39?
Title is called “self-portrait” made in 1930 with pastel on paper, mount cars 15 ¾ x 12 ½ in. (40 x 32 cm) irregular by the artist Francis Bacon he was twenty one when made this ...
@@neallucas Thank you for the reply. I can't believe that it has been 2 years since I have had this image in my daily life. The dimensions and materials, and the artist's age at production are new to me. I hadn't thought to ask again. Thanks again.
What's the music please? Thanks
my bad - on my phone i couldn't see the text - MUSIC: Kevin MacLeod - Almost in F - Tranquillity
Odd paintings but very interesting
Francis Bacon is never old !
1:26 looks like a happy doggo right there in the middle
greg nubody facts 🤭
He came 50 years after Pablo Picasso. I feel some similarities though.
Picasso was a key influence on him, according to interviews.
He admits Picasso as an infkuence
Picasso was born in 1881 and Bacon in 1909.
I don't think there are many painters that have not been influenced by Picasso. Bacon, certainly. Nicholson and Hockney. Even among the abstract expressionists, Pollock, De Kooning. Diebenkorn, LIchtenstein. Hundreds more.
He reminded me of my angsty teenage years lol
it's hard to describe the feeling of many F. Bacon's works....but gloomy, distorted, rage, suppression and oppression...come to mind....
really depressing for someone named bacon.
who is posting these nice things to look at?
Still better than pretentious abstract art
Was he plagued with thoughts of anguish?
no totally relaxed happy guy happy thoughts
Noblesse oblige
F
Deformed, amputated, blood dripping, wounded, slaughtered, - his world is a crazy slaughterhouse!
@34:52 haha dats funny
You would need to study each piece carefully
A trip into hell...
His world is like a slaughter house!
Hard to tell what I’m looking at ?
Francis bacon is Irish not British
we wuz
He was British, born in Ireland.
Stephen H. Litman correct
Great paintings but atrocious and ridiculous background "music". Wtf.
Why cant he paint a normal human being? It is a boring infinity of corpses, blood and rotten flesh!
Dont like this painting style. Too depressiv!
Francis bacon was gay
So
Rubbish. I could do the same, or better, having no ability whatsoever.
Doubt it