Daily Archives: 01/09/2019

“Why ever change the subject?” Francis Bacon asked. “You could go for the whole of your life painting the same subject.” So he did: dominating postwar figurative painting with enthralling virtuosity and infinite variety. Almost all his compositions feature a figure, recognisable but blurred, distorted, convulsed, within an airless, confined space. Rigorously, there is noContinue reading “Post. 1 Sept 2019.”

“His aggressiveness is informed by a personal library that once contained 7,000 books. “I’ll bet I read about 90 percent of them,” he said. “I wouldn’t claim I read all of them, but by and large, yeah.  I don’t get a book unless I’m going to read it.” And underline it, as he did withContinue reading “Post. 1 Sept 2019.”