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June 5, 2005
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Francis Bacon, portraits and heads

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

EVERYONE has an opinion about Francis Bacon. On his death in 1992 he was hailed by the chattering classes as 'probably the greatest British painter since Turner'.

Yet for others, Bacon's art was, and is, anathema - a terrifying excursion to a ghastly dystopia devoid of salvation, inhabited by obscene monsters with slavering mouths and blinded eyes, where paint drips in runnels and death stalks, unforgiving.

He's also one of the most easily visualised of all painters. That screaming Pope; those crucifixions; all those slightly sexy,

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