He didn't want to spend money on me. Hence, it's vanity and also egoism, because your work is you. Painting is very physical as it is, painting scenes of men in action gives me a great pleasure. It belongs on the shelf of every Bacon fan and artist, regardless of medium. Those that are in the studio help me to imagine details of other images. But I am lucid. When I paint, I have the desire to paint an image that I am imagining, and this image transforms itself. Nine interviews with Francis Bacon spanning over twenty years from 1962 to 1986 which give invaluable insight into the creative mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists. I have also painted men making love according to Muybridge’s images by using images of man fighting. We are all prisoners, we are all prisoners of love, one's family, one's childhood, profession. Jahrhunderts mit einer Anthologie zu würdigen. I look for the suggestion of an image in comparison to another. Contemplation allows me to imagine my version of the truth and the image that I have of this truth leads me to discover other ideas, and so on ... My work becomes a chain of ideas created by various images that I look at and that I have often registered with contradictory subjects. 28-29. I am a painter of the 20th century: during my childhood I lived through the revolutionary Irish movement, Sinn Fein, and the wars, Hiroshima, Hitler, the death camps, and daily violence that I've experienced all my life. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. And luck has had it that I haven't needed to compromise myself in any way. You lose the excitement that only comes from a crude image. 4,7 von 5 Sternen 66. FRANICS BACON: My painting is not violent; it’s life that is violent. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. William Eggleston: Who’s Afraid of Magenta, Yellow and Cyan? Ion Ciornei, Interviuri cu Francis Bacon: brutalitatea realităţii, 2010. Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. I need to visualise things that lead me to other forms, that lead me to visualise forms that lead me to other forms or subjects, details, images that influence my nervous system and transform the basic idea. All taped plus has lots and lots of photos , all b&W. I invent what I paint. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. And pornography helps. But it didn't work. I am not a pessimist. He was very, very nervous and not at all at ease. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. And while Giacobetti worked, they talked. In the book, a classic of its kind, Bacon considers the problems of realism and sheds new light on aspects of his life. It's instinct, and it's my instinct to paint it. It's a work of unbelievable precision. It's the same with books or films that I see. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. It's one of the aspects of human behaviour that most interests me. Francis Bacon with Michael Peppiatt in Paris, 1975. Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born English figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. DS: Have you ever had any desire at all to do an abstract painting? Francis Bacon, Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue (1985) by Dawn Ades et al. If I paint red meat as I paint bodies it is just because I find it very beautiful. I felt like I wasn't normal. Excerpts from an interview with David Gruen, The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists “I think that life is violent and most people turn away from that side of it in an attempt to live a life that is screened. Rozhovory s Francisem Baconem, 1962-1979, 1999. This film study - Bacon's first appearance on … They do not cry or scream except in situations of extreme pain. Fame is of no importance but it is important because one needs to live and sell one's paintings. We've all read reviews, manifestoes, literature, criticism, and let's raise our hands here, lots and lots of jargon in the service of 20th Century Art. Je commence à faire toutes sortes de taches. Show more Nine interviews range from 1962 to 1986, Bacon's fifties through his seventies, in the form of interactive conversations with art historian David Sylvester (British, 1924-2001), ranging from Bacon's frustrated … The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. Borrowing inspiration from Surrealism , film, photography, and the Old Masters , he forged a distinctive style that made him one of the most widely recognized exponents of figurative art in the 1940s and 1950s. Even if one defends oneself, one still always wants to leave something that will enter the history of art. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. He created a visual dictionary on movement, an animated dictionary. Sind Sie ein Autor? And we always talk rubbish in the small world of art. Interviews with Francis Bacon (Englisch) Taschenbuch – 29. FG Picasso once admitted to me that nothing aroused him more than drawing female genitals. It's more primitive than crucifixions. 137, June 2003, pp. An edited extract from Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester in 1963, 1966 and 1979. Excerpts from Francis Bacon: I Painted to be Loved, Interview by Francis Giacobetti conducted on February 1992, published in The Art Newspaper, no. La tache c’est l’accident. ), Paul Graham – “Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult” (2009), Chris Killip: The Station and a Note of Gratitude, Photobooks of the Year 2020/Welcome to the Castle, Andy Sewell Interview w/ Zak Dimitrov Known and Strange Things Pass, Koji Kitagawa: Mapping the Technical in Dreams, Byberry Insane Asylum – A House of Horrors in 1940’s Philadelphia, Isabel Wenzel Counting Till Ten Precarious Rituals, Ed van der Elsken – “Love on the Left Bank” (1954), The Last Francis Bacon Interview – On Violence, Meat and Photography. FG Many think that you stand with Picasso as the most important painter of this century. 137, June 2003, pp. At the time, it interested me. The men I painted were all in extreme situation, and the scream is a transcription of their pain. I mean, the act of birth is a violent thing, and the act of death is a violent thing. FB: I’ve had a desire to do forms, as when I originally did three forms at the base of the Crucifixion [Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944]. Photography, in my case, reflects the event in a clearer, more direct way. After him, we can no longer paint without thinking of him. My paintings are a lot less violent than me. Interview du peintre Francis BACON à propos de son art (filmé le 14 janvier 1984). When you paint men's bodies, is there a physical arousal? Francis Bacon by Francis Giacobetti' is at Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albermarle Street, London W1 (020-7629 5161), until 5 July 2003. Desperate because I don't have a very high opinion of the human being and of me in particular. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? A painter is alone in front of his canvas; it’s his imagination that creates, and sexuality needs to feed on images that you see or invent. You never retire from being vain. And how he is intrigued by both. Article bookmarked. J’attends ce que j’appelle « l’accident » : la tache à partir de laquelle va partir le tableau. I'm a pain. It belongs on the shelf of every Bacon fan and artist, regardless of medium. It's very real, it's very virile. He didn't love me and I didn't love him either. And pornography helps. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. But Picasso invented everything. Perhaps what we have in common is the fact that we like life above all. 137, June 2003, pp. 1985 / 58 min. Francis Bacon produced some of the most iconic images of wounded and traumatized humanity in post-war art. I think I was unhappy as a child. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. 15,80 … And I have used pornographic images as well. It belongs on the shelf of every Bacon fan and artist, regardless of medium. An artist instinctively takes all this into account. I'm like an owl.' An essential and entertaining series of interviews with francis bacon by david Sylvester from 1962 to 1986, 9 interviews. I have also asked a photographer friend to do men fighting but that didn't work. La tache c’est l’accident. Optimist, because I live from day to day as if I am never going to die. Images @ the Estate of Francis Bacon. I have also painted men making love according to Muybridge's images by using images of man fighting. This beautiful book is comprised of five essays, illustrated in colour throughout by Francis Bacon’s works. Directed by Michael Blackwood Pairing his collection of figurative paintings with an astute conversation surrounding mortality and humanity, “Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact” offers personal insight into the mind of an artist. You lose the excitement that only comes from a crude image. A painter is alone in front of his canvas; it's his imagination that creates, and sexuality f needs to feed on images that you see or invent. Everything is there, recorded, untalented, without staging, like a sequenced encyclopedia on the possibilities of human and animal movement. Men's bodies sexually arouse me so I paint men's bodies very often, it makes up almost all of my works. Even though financially we didn't really have any problems (we had a few but not a great deal), I still have the memory of a miserable childhood, as my parents were bourgeois. You mix the vegetables, you know the taste of each thing individually, but the blending with herbs and meat, the mixture of different molecules, produces another completely different taste. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends. He was introduced to Bacon, a famously reluctant photographic subject, by the artist's close friend, Michel Archimbaud. Bacon seems to have warmed to Giacobetti's fluid, low-tech approach. And a painter works with his human material, not with colours and paintbrushes. Me, I'm like an albatross: I take in thousands of images like fish, then I spit them out on the canvas. Francis Giacobetti Tell me about your childhood. He lost his temper with f everyone, he didn't have any friends. The moment when he discovers that youth is not eternal. Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester 18.25 € In these masterfully and creatively reconstructed interviews, Sylvester provided unparalleled access to the thought, work and life of one of the creative geniuses of the twentieth century. We come into this world with a scream and we often also die with a scream. They met 11 times over the next few months, for lunch or dinner, or for the extensive portrait sessions which took place in suites in two London hotels - 11 Cadogan Gardens and Browns - and a rented studio. Francis Bacon wäre im Oktober 2009 hundert Jahre alt geworden Anlass genug, sein Werk und die überragende Bedeutung seines Schaffens für die Kunst des 20. My temperament is strangely optimistic. I invent what I paint. Toen in meer dan 25 jaar het leven en werk van William Shakespeare en Francis Bacon heb bestudeerd en na mijn contact met de Internationale School van het Gouden Rozenkruis de rozenkruisersmanifesten las, ging ik hiertussen allerlei verbanden zien. Now, recordings of Bacon have emerged that shed light on the estrangement. FB: We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death. The aim of this website is to provide an ever-expanding fund of information on Francis Bacon’s art and life. For me, who doesn’t have any models, it’s an unbelievable source of inspiration. I think it's often like that for artists. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Interview by Francis Giacobetti conducted on February 1992, published in The Art Newspaper, no. Francis Bacon's paintings have been called sick and corrupt. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my … Als Autodidakt begann er Ende der 1920er Jahre mit der Malerei, nachdem er zuvor als Innenausstatter gearbeitet hatte. It is the first in a brand new series of books, Francis Bacon Studies, … Bacon died that April in Madrid. I only ever had one view: that of emerging from it. Erfahren Sie mehr über Author Central . FB When I paint two men buggering, it's not by chance, it's because I feel some kind of need to do it. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. We die famous instead of being the unknown soldier. I call it my imagination material. The only things that interest me are people, their folly, their ways, their anguish, this unbelievable, purely accidental intelligence which has shattered the planet, and which maybe, one day, will destroy it. He was a racehorse trainer, a failed trainer. Francis Bacon Recorded in 1965, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies. I am completely amoral and atheist, and if I hadn't painted, I would have been a thief or a criminal. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is part of life. The video is made by dispersing black ink into water. I think he hated me. That was one of my real obsessions. There are also heaps of illustrated books, magazines, photos. Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born English figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. I have the excuse of liking wine, and when I'm drunk, I talk a lot of nonsense; but, as I have f an excuse, I make the most of it. My AS art video of Francis Bacon talking about gambling and painting. It was 11 years before Giacobetti was finally able to realise the work and produce the prints, which are currently being shown for the first time at the Marlborough Gallery in London. Everything is there, recorded, untalented, without staging, like a sequenced encyclopedia on the possibilities of human and animal movement. Perhaps if my childhood had been happier, I would have painted bouquets of flowers. One day, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I saw a dog having a crap and I realised at that moment that I was going to die. Text @ the Estate of Francis Giacobetti. T he British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a self-taught artist. I enjoy looking at images since my obsession is painting in a representational manner, so I need to see forms and representational spaces. He was aggressive ... an old bastard. Gespräche mit Francis Bacon: Conversations avec Francis Bacon (NichtSoKleineBibliothek) Franck Maubert. I have endured physical violence, I have even had my teeth broken. FB Celebrity bullshit! Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. But that's not my thing. He was always looking for an excuse to get his servants to beat me. Excerpts from an interview with David Gruen, The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists “I think that life is violent and most people turn away from that side of it in an attempt to live a life that is screened. ☛ “Francis Bacon: I painted to be loved” interview by Francis Giacobetti conducted on February 1992, published in The Art Newspaper, no. But it's also the reminder of my father, who was an emotionally disturbed person. There are also heaps of illustrated books, magazines, photos. I think there is a difficult moment in the life of a man. It's like cooking. I've kept very few of them, if any. Usually he hated to pose. We have even created bombs capable of blowing up the planet a thousand times over. Giacobetti was inspired by Bacon's paintings, and many of the portraits echo familiar motifs - meat on a hook, a single lightbulb - and colours from the artist's palette. Since its first publication, this book―with its subsequent revised and augmented editions―has been considered a classic of its kind. That is vanity, the driving force of artists. Siehe Suchergebnisse für diesen Autor. FB I believe in being selfish. I also think that I have a difficult character. But I think they are merely fooling themselves. And besides, I don't like the smell of horse dung, but I find it sexually arousing, like urine. And he was so sharp. Extracts of the first interview for BBC radio were included in their exhibition catalogue Francis Bacon: Recent Work (1963) and the second Bacon interview by Sylvester was published for the first time in the exhibition catalogue Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings (1967).27 This catalogue also includes film stills from Gill’s documentary in which Sylvester interviews Bacon. Synopsis A reissue of the extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted by Sylvester over a period of 25 years. When I think of my childhood, I see something very heavy, very cold, like a block of ice. I have hardly any family left and very few friends that are still alive. You mix the vegetables, you know the taste of each thing individually, but the blending with herbs and meat, the mixture of different molecules, produces another completely different taste. He often based his paintings on a variety of photographic images. Hoe kwam je ertoe om een boek te schrijven over Francis Bacon? It’s like cooking. Artwork page for ‘Study for a Portrait’, Francis Bacon, 1952 Francis Bacon painted directly onto the raw, unprimed side of the canvas and here emphasised the texture further by rubbing sand into the paint. And too many exterior things have disrupted your nervous system, and the result is often disappointing. When we witness an event, we are often unable to explain the details. There are thousands of painters, but very few are the chosen ones. I think it’s often like that for artists. Ham, pigs, tongues, sides, of beef seen in the butcher’s window, all that death, I find it very beautiful. Every art needs to use images, except for, I think, music. Hence I've also done very crude canvases, very pornographic, but I destroyed them. When you look at an image that symbolises the event, you can browse through the snapshot of it and experience it in a much stronger way, and embrace it with more intensity. In the end they decided to capture their interview on video; some of it is reproduced here. 137, June 2003, pp. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Taschenbuch. 28-29 . Because they are more real than reality itself. I am not a pessimist. Previous Image Next Image . He was a difficult man, very vindictive. Interview with Francis Bacon In this stunning interview with Francis Bacon, Melvin Bragg peaks into the mind of the artist with some penetrating questions about existence and reality. The two met for the last time in early 1992. The images help me just as much to find ideas as to create them. An essential and entertaining series of interviews with francis bacon by david Sylvester from 1962 to 1986, 9 interviews. All taped plus has lots and lots of photos , all b&W. I don’t think anyone has ever really understood that. I have only myself to think of. PDF. FB Since the beginning of time, we have had countless examples of human violence even in our very civilised century. Picasso was a sponge, he made use of everything. When you look at an image that symbolises the event, you can browse through the snapshot of it and experience it in a much stronger way, and embrace it with more intensity. C’est dans le mythique club des Bains Douches, qui a agité les nuits parisiennes des années 1980, que Francis Bacon répond, en 1987, aux questions de Thierry Ardisson, producteur de l’émission « Bain de minuit », dont est extraite cette archive. FRANCIS GIACOBETTI: Your painting is often described as violent… FRANICS BACON: My painting is not violent; it’s life that is violent.

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