Great Art Explained

Francis Bacon: Great Art Explained: Study after Velázquez

My new Podcast can be found here! https://lnk.bio/primoandpayne My book Great Art Explained is ready to order now worldwide US - https://a.co/d/52C1D6c UK - https://amzn.eu/d/6EoTxjs Spain - https://www.fnac.pt/Obras-maestras-explicadas-James-Payne/a13465192 Also available in many other countries Latin and Central America India now, China and Korea soon When Francis Bacon emerged in post-war Britain, his work sent shockwaves through the art world. His paintings embodied violence, distortion and trauma. People were horrified, but they couldn’t look away. Bacon was a charismatic, intense and contradictory figure, who could be in equal parts cruel or charming. His paintings are a product of his own traumatic past but they also tapped into something much wider: a growing unease about power, authority, and control in the aftermath of war. A new generation was starting to ask - who gets to decide what is right? And who has the authority to tell us how to live? IMPORTANT! Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePD... I would like to thank all my Patreon supporters, in particular Alan Stewart, Alexander Velser, AMSN, Andrei Surei, Anja Zeutschel, Bria Nicole Art, Brian J Rich, David Asabreu, Ed Gobbi, "Elias', Eric Mann, Francis Song, Griffin Evans, Jemma Theivendran, Joe Kool, Jon Hanzen, Julio Cardenas, Kibibi Shaw, Louise Tait, Matthew Bondaryk, Mitch Kosowski, Monte St Johns, New Curiosity, Paul Ark, Paul Waterman, Daniel Rakovski, Sam Blakelock, Sean Welgemoed, Stephen Beresford, Tanya Moore, Theresa Garfink, and Toni Ko. "What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter (X) CREDITS Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m... and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88) Recording by Robert Lewis Script co-written with Laura Beardsell-Moore VIDEOS All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. MUSIC György Ligeti: Atmosphères FILMS Metropolis by Fritz Lang, 1927 Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 Napoleon by Abel Gance, 1927 TV CLIPS Full videos available on YouTube Francis Bacon Fragments Of A Portrait - interview by David Sylvester, 1966 Francis Bacon and The Brutality of Fact (1987), directed by Michael Blackwood Francis Bacon, directed by Pierre Koralnik pour la télévision Suisse, 1964 BOOKS The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon: The Authorised Biography by Daniel Farson Bacon: 1909-1992, Deep Beneath the Surfaces of Things (Basic Art Series) by Luigi Ficacci Francis Bacon: Reveklations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact by David Sylvester Francis Bacon in Your Blood by Michael Peppiatt Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.