Who is Francis Bacon? Learn more about the life and art of one of the twentieth century’s greatest painters.
distorted forms, shifting like the spaces within a bad
15 September 1932 Dear Annerl! I’m now sitting here in my brother’s incredible office on the twentieth floor of one of the most beautiful new skyscrapers, the NEWS BUILDING. Two hundred metres from here, out of the window and to the right, stands the CHRYSLER BUILDING, the second tallest building in the world. And not much further to the left stands the EMPIRE STATE. Ten minutes’ walk from the office is the apartment, 2 Beekman Place, and it’s the sort of apartment you would like: plain and simple, a place for only the finest art, and so practical that the …
garbled, with emphases in all the wrong places, and so bad
Tuesday My Annerl! I really can’t wait to hear from you. I’m annoyed at myself because my will alone isn’t able to bridge the distance between us so I can share this time in London with you. I’d love to know what it smells like in the streets and stairwells there, what you can see from your window, the sounds through which the city speaks to you day and night. I would like so much to be able to wander aimlessly through the fog with you, exploring London together, or to feel the spring sunshine on our backs and the …
out: trying to get to Stockholm wouldn’t be such a bad
Artist page for John William Buxton Knight (1842–1908)
letter, which he opened there, saying it brought him bad
A collection of performances, installations, lectures and discussions (on air – on site – on line) recorded in Vienna, December 1997.
Noise and the Noiscian 00:30:52 Peter Rehberg: Good, bad
This Audio Arts issue, originally published as a compact disc magazine, includes contributions from Imogen Stidworthy, David Austen, Jemima Stehli, Gavin Turk, Katy Dove, Sarah Morris, Stella Vine and Simon English, recorded from the Liverpool Biennial in 2004.
Vine’s method of painting with its distinctive ‚bad
filmed interview of artist Gerhard Richter
I was so unsatisfied with what I did and it was a bad
New York, 12 November Dearest Annerl! Shortly after I wrote my last letter to you, Heinzl collapsed and almost died. He was in hospital for two weeks but he’s strong enough now to go back to the office and back to work. He was so incredibly brave. When I took him to hospital that night he was virtually in a coma with a high fever. The doctor said he couldn’t be absolutely certain that he’d make it through the night. And Heinzl sensed that. The following morning, as he lay there in bed, yellow and gaunt and pale, he laughed …
It wasn’t too bad, I thought.
Take a closer look at William Blake’s illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Read a summary and analysis of sections from Dante’s epic poem and listen to recordings of each section.
their lives without doing anything notably good or bad
New York, 9 October My dearest Annerl! Guess who’s just arrived, fresh from Europe, virtually fresh from our place!? The telephone rings last night; Heinzl goes over, incomprehensible English; he calls me over, incomprehensible German; finally in French: Pommerance! À demain matin, dix heures, American Express Company! So that’s where I’ve been this morning: greeting the beaming schoolboy with a hearty handshake – or should I say greeting the young rascal? For the only schoolboys who are ever this excited and enthusiastic, curious and carefree, so entirely in their element, are either young rascals or schoolboys on holiday. From the …
And that’s exactly why it would be bad for my work
