Francis Bacon
Streaming video - 2016
Francis Bacon revolutionised figurative painting in the 20th century. The English painter unmasked his subjects in a provocative and ruthless manner. Deformed bodies, grimacing faces and the materiality of colour make us aware of brutality and sexuality, existential abysses and the fears of existence. Works like the portrait Pope Innocent X from Velazquez inspired him just as much as Eisenstein's epic film The Battleship Potemkin for his famous motif: the Scream. Author Melvyn Bragg accompanies the painter throughout his day. This begins in his London atelier, leads us on to his favourite pub and ends up in a gambling club in Soho.
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming
2016.
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- English
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- A Kanopy streaming video
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- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).