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A man looks at Francis Bacon's 'Man at Washbasin' (R) being ...
Getty Images;  May 15, 2008 ;     258 words ...MIKE CLARKE Getty Images 05-15-2008 A man looks at Francis Bacon's 'Man at Washbasin' (R) being ... Warhol to Zhang Xiaogang. AFP PHOTO/MIKE CLARKE (Photo credit should read MIKE CLARKE ...

Article: Francis Bacon
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Francis Bacon The English artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was one of the most powerful and original ... particularly noted for the obsessive intensity of his work. Francis Bacon (a collateral descendant of the great Elizabethan statesman ...

Transcript: Controversial Francis Bacon Biopic
NPR Morning Edition;  November 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... 00-00-0000 BOB EDWARDS, HOST: Francis Bacon has been called one of Britain's ... reports. DAVID D'ARCY, REPORTER: Francis Bacon was a self-taught painter who liked ... would horrify the people who saw them. FRANCIS BACON, PAINTER: I wanted to give me a shock ...

Article: Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... and Catherine Gimelli Martin, eds. Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern ... surprising for a work as influential as Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning of 1605 ... without some sort of commemoration. Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern ...

Article: Cover story: Demon lover Screaming popes, tormented faces - ...
The Independent on Sunday;  March 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... 1980s in South Kensington, I saw Francis Bacon hopping on the back of a bus. I stared ... person; as paradoxical as his art. Francis Bacon was as recognisable as his paintings ... bring us face to face with the real Francis Bacon. The first of these, a new book called ...

Article: An Appreciation Of Francis Bacon
The Virginia Quarterly Review;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... DISCUSSIONS OF RECENT BOOKS AN APPRECIATION OF FRANCIS BACON By JOHN PORTMAN Francis Bacon. By Perez Zagorin. Princeton. $29.95 ... hang adjacent to one another portraits of Francis Bacon and Elizabeth I. This proximity would have ...

Article: Francis Bacon, pintor de monstruos. (pintor ...
Contenido;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... hasta la sepultura. Cuando en 1968 Francis Bacon expuso por primera vez en Estados Unidos ... presuma de ser descendiente del filsofo Francis Bacon (1561-1626), canciller de Inglaterra ... entonces, la principal ocupacin de Francis Bacon eran los placeres mundanos: trabajaba ...