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Inspiration from favourite Artists week : Francis Bacon and John Nash .
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Welcome to week Seven I can’t believe how fast the weeks are passing by this weeks artist are : Francis Bacon and John Nash. Denise suggested Francis Bacon and Jenny suggested John Nash. If you would add your choice of paintings Denise and as in other weeks if you could follow on Wednesday with yours Jenny.
A message for Ron Goodwin a few weeks ago you suggested Richard Brindley , unfortunately I can’t find any artwork under that name , did you by chance mean Robert Brindley. Have a good week and enjoy the artwork.
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Francis Bacon, I came across his work a couple of months ago. I really didn't know what to make of his work. I didn't know if I liked it, or disliked it. One thing though, I find it very intriguing, interesting and it makes me want to learn about him as an artist and what, his work meant to him. I want to understand what is behind a painting but maybe, it's not something to be understood. Maybe, it is, to just stop you in your tracks and just look and think, wow, that's something very different and be amazed by the fact that you have come across something, that has just made you freeze in your steps. Something so visually odd, that the confines of normal structure, burst's through to freedom and kick's the boundaries to the kerb.
Three studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
Man Walking Down Steps.
Three studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
Man Walking Down Steps.
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I’m well familiar with his work, and his obsession with distorted almost grotesque images of animals and people!
But I don’t pretend to understand either his paintings or the artist if I’m honest… however, I do like the image below!
Francis Bacon - Étude pour un portrait de John Edwards
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by Alan Bickley
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I find his work very unsettling and hard to look at and am not sure I could pick out one I like, but I have just read an excellent article (entitled Sacred Monster) on his life and work in the New York magazine. Denise, it’s worth a read - search ‘nymag.com francis bacon’.
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by Jenny Harris
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Much of his work I find difficult and disturbing to look at, which is presumably what he was aiming at. I have managed to find two paintings which aren’t too gruesome! The first is of a screaming pope and the smaller one a study for a self portrait.
His work brings me to the thought that there is much art which one can appreciate the skill involved in producing, without in any way liking it. Also , having looked through quite a lot trying to find something to put on here, I then went back to the POL gallery and thought -wow- a very different world! I’m very interested to see what everyone else here thinks of him.
Incidentally if you Google Francis Bacon studio images, they are worth looking at.
Makes my small space look very tidy.
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by Tessa Gwynne
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I came across his artwork a few years ago , I have to admit to finding it bit disturbing but can’t say why, as a result I’m not fond of his work. Having spent about an hour looking at his paintings on line I haven’t changed my mind and could not pick a single one out that I even thought was ok . I think a good part of my discomfort is due to having worked in mental health services for twenty years and his work reminds me of some that where produce by people using the service.
I’m not suggesting that he suffers / suffered a mental illness it just the work is so similar , I will stop there before I dig a bigger hole for myself.
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I think you’re right there Dixie, and that was my thinking also. Then I thought of Van Goch who had such problems and produced very different work. I guess Bacon was trying to create something which hadn’t been done before, and I feel Denise has made a good choice which is making us think a bit more about what’s going on in the artists mind.
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Hats off to Denise for her choice , but I suspect that she thought it would be divisive. Denise did say she is sure about it but is attracted to it. I don’t try to analyse a person by their artwork , I did spend a lot of time working with a art therapist he relayed the story of a staff member who was horrified because someone had painted a grave yard with a purple moon , death and fears that he was psychotic etc. . He asked if she knew the client and had she asked why it was painted purple, she had not asked and did not know the guy . He asked him the following week , he looked at the painting and said well I couldn’t reach the f - - - - - - yellow , one red faced co worker.
These are a self portrait triptych.
