Art Documentary Screening: “Francis Bacon” by David Hinton

Fri 26 Jun 2015, 8 pm
Blossom Art House

From the organizer:

You are invited to the screening of “FRANCIS BACON” – an art documentary, a film by David Hinton.

Roving from gallery to studio to café to bar, this award-winning documentary reveals an artist, held — in the words of host Melvyn Bragg — to be the greatest living painter in the world. Francis Bacon discusses his life and work with utter frankness.

Francis Bacon revolutionized figurative painting and is one of the most important figures in the arts of 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 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 through one of his typical days. This begins in his London atelier, leads us on to his favorite pub and ends up in a gambling club in Soho.

Duration: 55 minutes
Language: English

FREE ENTRY.(donation suggested)