The Scandalous Life of Francis Bacon, the Artist Who Defied Convention: Art History School
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Francis Bacon was an English painter known for his striking, often disturbing portraits and images. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1909, he moved to London as a young man and began studying art. After experimenting with several styles, he developed his signature technique, which involved distorting and abstracting the human form to create powerful, emotionally charged images.
Bacon's paintings often featured contorted figures, stark backgrounds, and intense, contrasting colors. His work was influenced by a wide range of sources, including art history, literature, and the human body itself. He became known for his ability to convey complex emotions and psychological states through his art.
Bacon's career was marked by both critical acclaim and controversy. His paintings were celebrated by many art critics and collectors, but were also considered shocking and disturbing by some. Despite this, he continued to create groundbreaking art until his death in 1992.
Today, Francis Bacon is widely regarded as one of the most important painters of the 20th century. His work continues to be exhibited and studied around the world, and his legacy as a pioneering artist remains secure. In 2013 his painting "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" became the most expensive work sold at auction - $142.4 million at Christie's in New York.
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I've followed Bacon for decades and there are photographs and images of early paintings in this I have never seen before. Terrific. We know Bacon mainly by the output from the 60s and 70s but boy, that pre-Marlborough Gallery work is dark and tremendous. Great to see it all laid out (almost) chronologically here. Thank you.
You are very welcome. Cheers
I love the age captions - gives me a great insight of individual events in the context of his life as whole. Thank you so much!
You are very welcome.
Francis was such a wunderbar and humble human being. Hope he will be resurrected soon . . .I´d like to meet him . . .
So sad to see his life was so dark as we're his paintings. What a insightful history recollection. Thank you for this fine study of this troubled man
I'm glad you enjoyed my video. Cheers
Ahh, such a terrible privileged life 😭
The dark secret lies in his youth. Abused poor guy . . . .no wonder that he did NOT want any offspring . . . .
@@surality Ha ha, he certainly had much MUCH more fun than 95 % of dumb flock/mob . . .
Because of your team’s hard work and your own talent, I now know what a complex human being and great artist Francis Bacon was. Thank you!
I wish I did have a team. I do all the work myself including the research, filming editing etc., which is why I am not producing videos every week. But it is great to know my efforts are appreciated, many thanks.
Art History School hats off to you! That’s pretty amazing!
Cheers
Thank you for producing this excellent video on the life of one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. Bacon was a huge talent but was also a complex and interesting individual. For anybody wanting to find out a bit more about his life, I'd certainly recommend his friend Daniel Farson's book.
Yes, my video is an introduction to this great painter - there is so much more to this complex character than can be covered in 20 minutes. The book would be great for someone wanting a more in depth analysis of his life and work.
Wonderful.video. please continue doing those. We appreciate so.much.
That was fantastic! I think your channel is the best. Thank you for your excellent work.
Wow, thank you! Much appreciated.
Excellent presentation. Whenever I listen to you and see your videos I learned a lot thank you so much for doing this
I came here looking for an older Frank Bacon, philosopher/attorney/ statesman from the 17th century, but this was great. Thanks!
Gosh his work is so disturbing and so compelling at the same time. I love it.
I think that is what makes it such great art.
Hi Jane
I'm really enjoying these art history videos! Thank you so much for taking the time to make them :D
Glad you like them! I enjoy making them. Cheers
For art lovers and art history passionates, this channel has to be the best. Thank you for publishing these.
Many thanks, much appreciated. Cheers
Hands down one of my favorite artists of all time ever since first seeing his work at the Getty! Loved seeing the more obscure paintings that people don't talk about much! thank you!
He was a one off. Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
The perfect abstract realist . The work show figures in motion , that morph in and out of existence . And in some aspects it reminds me of souls being stretched from their bodies as they scream in agony. Then there is the stylized representation of creatures and corpses up against a stark red field . Amazing visual works that I found very disturbing when I was young. But as I became an older artist and a bit more learned , I saw alot of brilliantly painted pain , and that's not easy to do .
I agree, he was a truly brilliant painter.
Thanks again! I knew so little of Francis Bacon, and was a bit put off to be honest by what little I had seen before watching, but your brief video sheds a light of understanding, and it's also introduced me to so much of his varied works of art, that it has made me want to look more closely.
He is a difficult artist to appreciate in some ways, but understanding his background and the time in which he lived gives great insights into his work. Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
I went to RA exhibit last week….at the end of his first interview with Melvyn Bragg he gives context to my reaction. I did not like it.
I myself own 3 biographies about Francis (maybe because I am a painter by myself) Although he has been abused, he made the best out of his life. I respect and admire him for that. He could easily have committed suicide - like George Dyer. But: Francis was STRONG and had his ART to rescue himself. By the way: Thank you so much sir for caring about this absolutely wonderful legend !
You are very right. Bacon was a force of nature and I think he is a brilliant painter, one of the best.
Thanks for this video Paul. I remember watching a documentary about him years ago where he was interviewed in his studio. How he used to function in that room was astonishing. I love his triptychs and his dark style of painting, which reminds me of Goya at times, who I also really like. Thanks again.
I think the Goya analogy is a good one. He was a great painter.
Yes! I love this newly discovered channel! I love the historical backgrounds of artist.
Welcome aboard! Cheers
I love your love for art, your narrative of the lives of oftentimes rejected and struggling artists. I only wish I could show you my art, my spiritual writings, etc...Keep up the energy, color, passion and lusciousness of your 'art school'. Aloha from Hilo, Hawaii
Thank you. Cheers from England
Great coverage. Thank for showing !
Thanks for watching!
I love all of your videos! You make the world a more beautiful place. Thank you from art historians and lovers of art everywhere!
Thank you so much 😀 Cheers
I’m so glad to have stumbled upon your channel. The way you tell the story is very engaging and your voice is very calming. Thank you 🌸
Thank you so much! Really pleased you enjoyed the video, I hope you enjoy the others too. Cheers
Another well researched, well presented video. Thank you so much. It is sad that he destroyed so many of his art works..His soul was full of torture.
Really pleased you enjoyed my video. I think his upbringing and the time in which he lived had a great effect on him. Cheers
@@ArtHistorySchool I noticed that you always make the effort to reply to all your commenters. You have a very kind and caring soul. My respect!❣️
Thank you, again, for your work, insight, and keen description of the works and their creators. Serenity and joy.
Thank you kindly! Cheers
Pleases me to know he was appreciated and honored during his life.
Thank you for an illuminating biography!
Many thanks
I absolutely love every video of this channel. I love your way of telling the stories! ❤️
Really pleased you enjoy my videos. Cheers
I've seen many famous artists work after alot of travelling.
I've loved them all, but am always strongly more drawn to glass display cabinets full of their sketchbooks, easel, paintbrush pallette paints etc.
Things like a pair of glasses, palletes full of dried paint , smock, beret or hat , loose sketches and experiments always make me feel closer to their soul and who they were . You feel like you've actually met them in person . They tend to show clothes, shoes, half empty glass of wine , cigarette stub in ashtray ...all sorts...I love it.
Bacon's art studio was amazing. He used the walls, doors , mirrors and tables as his pallete and mixing plate.
It's an absolute mess, but I love it, it's full of energy and passion for expressing himself.
It shows the long hard journey towards a finished piece , the painting.
Bacon was a genius ,fired up, eccentric artist...
One of a kind.
Wonderful.
💚💚💚💚
The mess was part of his inspiration I think.
Excellent, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure!
Great overview!! Thank you very much
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.
Another very interesting video, thanks Paul.
Many thanks! Cheers
Oh, thank you. I think Bacon’s paintings are just the most interesting, how he uses space and creates form. Thank you for showing so much of his work! -❤
Glad you enjoyed the video, Bacon is one of my favourites too.
Great video. I love how much insightful info you are able to pack into your videos in an understandable way.
It's hard not to be drawn to Bacon's work!
Bacon is a very unusual artist, glad you enjoyed the video. Good luck with your channel.
@@ArtHistorySchool Thank you!
i am going to binge this channel so hard, thank you
I hope you enjoy them all. Cheers
Thank you for another awesome video! ❤
Cheers
Thank you so much, this (as all your videos are) is so enlightening!!
Thank you Andrew, I'm really pleased you enjoy my videos.
What a work! Congrats for making this video. It's awesome.
Thanks a lot! Cheers
These videos are Amazing! can't wait to see more of them!
Glad you like them! Cheers
Thank you for this - I often watch your vids when having my lunch!
That's wonderful. Cheers
Thank you for the amazing video!
You are very welcome.
Fantastic video.. Enjoyed watching.
Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Very informative and well presented. Thank you for your efforts.
You are welcome
Thank you for stories like this one
Very well done
Glad you enjoyed it
Great documentary. Bacon’s paintings and triptychs were very well explained. Thanks so much.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Thank you. I knew very little about Francis Bacon until I attended your "Art History School." Very well done. Enjoy your videos.
Thank you very much! Cheers
Thank you so much for Francis Bacon, sir Paul. So interesting and informative. I love, how you explain all the context to the art. So many pictures that you always find for your videos are impressive. I like Bacon, he makes me thinking, he is complex - he is not a classical painter, where we can see and understand everything at the first look. I think that some of his works look like if you would look at them through a glass of water. I like that. Thank you so much for your video, you are amazing. P.S. I like your new haircut - it is très artistique! XX
Really pleased you like the video, he was a quite unique artist. Hairdressers in England have been shut these past four months for obvious reasons, so the new haircut sort of evolved. Cheers
i really enjoyed this video, great blend of informative and enthusiastic. subscribed!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for subscribing. Cheers
Nice, this is the painter that I need to study for my next art history examen. Perfect timing, thanks
I hope you do wonderfully well with your art exam. Cheers
thank you for the great video.
Glad you liked it!
What a great idea for a channel. Perfect background videos while working in the studio - cheers! 👍
Glad you think so! Many thanks
Art History School rocks! Thanks for these bios.
Glad you like them! Cheers
I am so glad I found this history teaching of Francis Bacon, it is very helpful to understand the life of Francis...thank you !!!
Glad it was helpful! Cheers
Fascinating video; I learned a lot and developed a new appreciation for Bacon’s work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for starting a art history channel, which educate people like me having no art school background but interested in fine art. subscribed. waiting for more videos :)
Cheers
Thank you so much. Your documentary amplified my vision and knowledge about this great revolutionary artist of the 20th century.
You are very welcome.
Loved the video, I really enjoyed learning more about Francis Bacon, such a great artist! Will you ever do a video on Degas? One of my favorite artists :)
He's on the list
I found the video extreme interesting!!! Amazing evolution in his work!!!
Yes, he has quite a unique perspective on painting, which I also find very interesting.
Hello, dear Paul!
It's still happy time to watch your interesting video.
Thank you!
Many thanks
I want weekly video from you.....your channel helps me a lot for my college degree...thank you so much
Really pleased you enjoy my videos but I can't produce one a week. I'll do my best.
This was a very great presentation of Francis Bacon. He was a friend of my fathers, Harold Arthur Drury, a great painter in his own right and I grew up with Bacons paintings in print form around the house and stories of Francis in the pubs with dad.
Thank you. I bet you have lots of interesting anecdotes about Bacon that would have been great in the video. Cheers
Loved this, excellent job.
Thank you very much! Cheers
wonderful video....Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Very nicely done, Paul. Bravo!
Cheers
Hi Fleur
WoW!!!
My 89th years!!!
Can you believe it, my 89th years!!!
My interest in (visual) arts ended when I became a jewelry-model maker, by carving cow-horns, and ivory (while in Africa) which later became wax’s models for casting precious metals.
Now, in retirement I’ve returned to my first-love, visual art.
All praises to the Creat
Cheers, let's hope you are enjoying art for many years to come.
wonderful vid - both educational and entertaining - thanks for posting! subbed
Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
Thank you so much! A fantastic Video!
You're very welcome!
Love your videos. I knew little about Francis Bacon until I watched this fascinating and informative video.
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed the video.
Excellent. Really enjoyed this and I have subscribed.
Really pleased you enjoyed the video and thanks for subscribing. Cheers
I saw Painting 1946 three days ago at Moma and it spent chills down my spine. Thanks for the video!
That's a great painting. Cheers
Very Informative loved it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video. Thank you
Glad you liked it! Cheers
P.s love how you present. A well earned subscription
Thank you and thanks for the sub, much appreciated. Cheers
Once again thx so much
You are welcome
Your channel is amazing.
Thank you so much 😀
Thank you for this beautiful, informative, and engaging video on one of the most intriguing and fascinating artists of modern art.
Glad you enjoyed it! He was a unique artist. Cheers
@@ArtHistorySchool I am using this for my college Art Appreciation class, may I? My featured artists for this week are Frida Kahlo and Francis Bacon. Thanks a lot for this great vid.
How wonderful, thank you so much, God bless you.
I met Francis, when I made a trip to London. I went to his address and knocked at his door. He opened, asked me what's up and I said I'm from Austria, visiting London. He let me enter and in the evening we went out to dinner, gambling an then, very late at night we went in to a weird place, full of strange and interesting people also meeting Lucian Freud. 2 days later we went for breakfast in a small delicatessen shop with 2 tables in a back room with Lucian Freud who shared a large piece of nougat with us. Those days I'll never forget as long as I may live.
Looking forward to your next video, greetings from Christian and family 🎨
Amazing, that must have been brilliant.
Wow! What a fantastic channel!! Brilliant material and effort! Thanks for all you do!! Sub 10 times over and will pass it along!
Wow, thank you, I'm pleased you enjoy my videos and thanks for the sub and encouraging others to do so. Cheers
Wow what a great story.. Thank you Sir Paul for this wonderful video.. As artist i was inspired by your educational video about art, artist and their life, contribution to the world..
That's great, thank you glad you enjoyed the video.
This has given me a much better understanding of Bacon s work . Thank You
Great to hear! Cheers
Amazing video. Very educational
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Thank you...well done...great Art history...
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Encore, Bravo!
Just brilliant, Professor.
This high school art history teacher thanks you!
I used to teach in a high school too. Many thanks
@@ArtHistorySchool Mainly really appreciate your spot on pronunciations of artists' names. So helpful. Your talent for set design, writing, and delivery, not to mention your knowledge and expertise and how you condense it to the essentials, goes unmatched: no one is doing anything remotely like this online. You musta been a playwright in another life! Continue your longer reenactments; we're watching :) cheers!
Thank you !
You're welcome!
In the 1990s I had the good fortune to be photographing in a closed and mostly dark gallery where a large Francis Bacon painting was on display. In the semi darkness it was magnificently creepy and visually stunning. I couldn't keep from walking up to it over and over again to look at the texture. Gave me the shivers. After years of looking at Bacon's paintings, I don't think he's always 'just going' for the creepy and unsettling, I think he primarily goes for a powerful visual effect and when he's got it he seems to stop. This is what I noticed in the paining of George Gyer featured in the Dublin City Museum, where his "shambolic studio" (great description) is recreated. Get an arm's length from the face on this canvas and study it with your right eye. When the image start to slide you'll feel a thrill and you'll experience Francis Bacon as he did. The rest of the canvas seems unfinished - of course that doesn't matter.
He is a much under rated painter in some quarters, but I think he is there up with the greats.
Wheeey Thank you.Fantastic watch.
That's great. Cheers
What a fascinating personality, and of course your presentation was just as artistic and excellent as always! Before I actually saw your video, I had just listened to an episode entirely dedicated to his studio and his way of working on the "Messy Studio" podcast. The episode is called "The messiest studio ever", and maybe you find it interesting to listen to. Cheers and keep up the excellent work!!
Wow, thank you!
Great review of his life
Thanks for watching all my videos. Cheers
Excellent.
I had no idea his work stretched so far back.
Well done... like good bacon.
Peace on earth.
Cheers
Really fantastic sir.... nicely explain about the artist...thank you sir..
You are very welcome.
Great documentary thanks :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Как интересно Вы подаёте материал, слушаешь, не отрываясь ни на секунду. Какая тяжёлая судьба у художника, ведь кто-то же должен был направлять его разум и его кисть на то, чтобы
изображать мир таким мрачным...?! Искреннее спасибо за Ваш труд, постараюсь ничего не пропустить.
Он был очень необычным художником. Рад, что вам понравилось видео. Ваше здоровье
I forgot to subscribe before. Thanks for making the videos. I'll have to check out your catalog of videos actually since I want to be a professional painter.
"Greatest English painter since JMW Turner" maybe. I love these pieces you're showing thanks again
Thank you for subscribing, really pleased you enjoy my videos. Cheers
I found this study of f. bacon most informative and so very interesting.Proves a point,its really not the outer man but the inner man that counts!
That is very true, glad you liked the video.
Wow I love your videos about artists! I studied art history in university and I love to hear the again. Hope you will put more videos on abstract art and artists.😍👍subscribed you as well.
Thank you! Will do!
Great video! tks! Love Bacon
He is one of my favourite painters too.
Thanks a lot...
Cheers
We in Ireland like to think of Bacon as Irish ! Love the video, thanks for creating it.
I can understand why. I guess its like Keifer Sutherland the actor who was born in London to America parents and lived his first few years there, yet is always referred to as American. Cheers
This is some of the best art I've ever seen.
He was a great painter. Cheers
Thank you, fascinating.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've never truly appreciated Francis Bacon until I watched this! Thank you for your insights.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
I agree , I've seen many bacon art documentaries , but you sir have given me a very singular insight here with this narrative.
Many thanks to the loader and the program.
Thanks!
Many thanks for your donation, much appreciated. It all helps towards the cost of making the videos. Thanks again, Paul
Thank you for educating me on this very interesting artist! I'm reading The Elegance of The Hedgehog and it mentions Bacon. I had no idea who he was.
Very interesting character, Glad you liked the video. Cheers
Brilliant Thankyou!
You're welcome!
Your VIDEOS should not be free! Simply *EXTRAORDINARY*
Bravo 👏BRAVO ...beautiful
Wow, thank you! Cheers