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great interview and what a nice chap - that's why FB looked after you!

Bacon is good for me!

The lounge is exquisite.

I have been to the Hermitage. Nice place. Some nice faberge in the Kremlin. Lalique in Gulbenkian museum in Lisbon I haven't seen.

I remember in the 90s Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were the two most famous living painters and I mixed them up all the time. Both had a very "painterly" way of daubing oils on canvas.

Lacan, Derrida, "agency" - ugh... $hitcan all that academese. These lectures are living proof of Camille Paglia's adage: "Only primitives and sophisticates find beauty in the grotesque. The first and last of history meet in Decadence." And if Bacon was anything, he was a Decadent. Eyes don't get a raw deal any more or less in his art than legs, ears, faces, arms, even shadows are drafted to be leaky soul-plasm. One 'undistorted eyes' painting the prof misses that immediately comes to my mind is the one he painted of disembodied legs running around with a portrait of him mixed in: Study from the Human Body and Portrait, 1988. Bacon ritualistically mutilates everything-legs run around without torsos, torsos pose without legs and arms, everything is locked within cages or circular womb spaces.. it is classic Decadence. Decadence is a post-Romantic reaction that manifests itself in ritual limitation. Bacon could not stand Romanticism, to him love was just the orgasm put into social dress. He was no do-gooder painting GUERNICA for the United Nations and like other Decadents was drawn to criminal illicit underworlds. I would say Picasso was the Romantic, Bacon the Decadent answer. In Romanticism the self is enlarged, inflated, over-expanded, like Picasso's series of bathers that influenced Bacon early on. But the self must be chastened, all that balletic leaping and dancing in Picasso turned into a chained monkey wraith screaming in a cage. Bacon's surgery is a a kind of self-lacerating ascetism. His mutilations and reductions of the body are a ritual ascesis of the overexpanded modern self. For all his shenanigans, For all the horror, Bacon was a very grounded individual, woke up early and worked almost daily and he lived simply, monastically. The antithesis of Pollack (another legendary drinker), Bacon retains CONTROL, even to the extent of fussily destroying his own paintings. There is a coldness to him, and although art students like Damien Hirst in his youth got a rise out of his gnarly violence, it is more Abominable Doctor Phibes than Mr. Hyde. Bacon practiced an aesthetics of subtraction, a pathological metaphysic in which the imagination reorients itself to the world by a surgical reduction of self. Why he loved S&M in his private life, to be locked in by a tight leather jacket and panty hose and beaten. As Paglia says, "Sadomasochism will always appear in the freest times, in imperial Rome or the late twentieth century. It is a pagan ritual of riddance, stilling anxiety and fear." Bacon's post-war work is the dark underbelliest of underbellies of the art world, then saturated with nine different ways of seeing: Abstract Expressionism, Action Art, Pop Art, etc. Bacon, from his THREE FIGURES in 1945 to his final disintegrating bull, puts out the eye, erases body parts, and relapses us into the body-bound chthonic world of animal reality. His partners in crime are Baudelaire, Poe, Kleist, Dickinson. He famously declined pain medication for stitching because he identifies with feminine suffering, and his paintings are prison dreams of self-immolation.

What a beautiful woman

lunches that went on to 3 or 4am in the morning ha! - Nicely!

DVF dress i think

I must have crossed paths I went to the French house wine bar in soho in the very early 80s

those days are gone taken by technology

thank you.

Nice high pitch feedback sound, totally ruins it. Getting AphexTwin Ventolin vibes

Thanks

Very helpful, indeed. My thanks for a fine effort. I loved the youthful POV these two brought to this amazing era in the art of painting. FB changed my life. Thanks Mr. B, RIP. Fact check me, if you like.

Bacon set my life course, after Van Gogh and Rembrandt got my attention. Thanks for inspiring my art career, Francis. I'll never forget your work, and your motives.

Thanks for this:) I would recommend using a teleprompter for the ‘to camera’ presenting sections of your videos as then you will be able to more naturally recite your pre written text to camera:)

Images made by that person are so repulsive, horrible and depressing that shouldn't be put on display. I'm free to say that and nobody can say about it.

the relationship between Bacon and Freud seems to me to be incredibly fascinating and rich on a personal and artistic level. perhaps, competitive? did they push each other to brilliance? I wonder if a book could be written particularly on their personal and artistic relationship

AWESOME! Thanks for showing.

Can't stand Lucian Freud, love Francis though

In my opinion, I prefer the first version of "Man at a Washbasin, 1989-90" compared to the second version. I don't think that the background distracts from focus on the figure, I think it actually opens up the space for the figure.

Alex is more like Lucian than Lucian himself - so weird watching him! :)

No art has ever been as hauntingly beautiful as Bacon's.

Will there be a digital edition of the book?

AWESOME! Thanks for showing.

Compelling ... well done + onwards!

Been looking forward to this book for insight into his process. Not for pretentious “critiques”. Hope the book is not full of pointless and pompous essays.

This guy speaking scares me. I bet he kicks his dog.

One of the greats, thank you

Amazing!

They still have a lot of revision before I'll like it

Revisions? 🤔

Sophie sais " book " whats its Title please?

REALLY!!! Let me watch this.

1:20: 'He (Bacon) never allowed himself to be photographed in the act of painting - except on this one occasion.' That is simply not true. Several photographs exist showing Bacon working on other canvases in his Reece Mews studio; these images being taken by Barry Joule. I can understand that the Estate are unwilling to acknowledge BJ because of the controversy relating to the Joule Archive, but with all the confusion and misinformation surrounding Bacon's life, it is very important to try and be factually correct.

The Algorithm God's blessed me with this recommendation. Look forward to checking out the other vids. Thank you!

this is wonderful. truly he is an artist for the ages. I think we will never stop finding new things in his art, he is so infinitely interesting and original and mysterious and brilliant

James Tunney.Hits the spot more than a Heineken. Absolute understanding of the man and his work. Makes the rest without exception look shy and vague.U TUBE..The Bacon master.

It's always seemed as if the oval, as a shape, often the shape of a wall or part of a room in his work, was a consistent and prominent image for him (wasn't a room in his childhood home in Ireland oval shaped or something to that effect?). It's interesting that he circled back and left one on the lap of Edwards. Perhaps home is where the heart is?

Absolutely fascinating… thank you.

I knew Lucian Freud when he lived in Paddington as his studio was next door to our house in Delamere Terrace. He often came in and sat and talked over a cup of coffee. He did an amazing painting of my step father and sister in the 1940s. It's incredible how much his son looks like him when he was about the same age. Same expressions and mannerisms. He was very gentle and shy and polite.

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

A poignant reminder why Bacon has become one of the most revered artists of the 21st century. debauchery! 👁️👁️ 👃 O

Wonderful little film. The stories told are so evocative and bring Francis and Lucien back so clearly. Rose and Alex are so genuine and sweet. Some fascinating insights Thankyou 🧡

Alex look so much to his dad and in this interview he's also on a sofa in the same position like a Francis' painting! Thanks for sharing this gems!

Alex Boyte on Lucian Freud: "He died next to being looked on by The Buggers; he died with The Buggers by his side." Wonderful..... Thank you.

Great interview. Good grief, how much Alex looks like his dad!

A fantastic interview with some brilliant insights & pictures. I particularly liked Francis & Lucian together in Soho, & Lucian at home next to Bacon's painting!