Well – he has never taught art to others officially, and has never been taught art by others in such a manner …
And while not being entirely sure, if just because or despite of that – Francis Bacon excels as an art (painting) tutor. I found him so lucidly articulated, so continuously and deeply [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘figurative painting’
October 30, 2009
A seminar with Francis Bacon …
August 5, 2009
New toys of a dirty boy – Eric Fischl
A gifted boy with dirty imagination is back.
Eric Fischl (b. 1948, NY) has apparently abandoned his flamboyant yuppies and bad boys lost in their hedonistic activities on daddies’ yachts and in flashy apartments. Or rather – he grew up with them, since the new characters of his painted stories are middle- aged couples, lost again, [...]
February 14, 2009
Troubled Art – Chaim Soutine
He was that kind of a difficult snotty kid, who appeared from nowhere as if fully formed, then, like a meteor glowing with dark, perpetual fire he flashed through life fulfilled with struggles, suffering, torment and passions. He left one of the most compelling collections of paintings in the Modern Art; despite of the quite [...]
November 13, 2007
Frank Auerbach – the painter of intimacy
Frank Auerbach (b. in Berlin 1931). British painter and printmaker. As many Jewish children during the WWII he was sent out of Germany to England; he was eight at that moment. His entire family died in the Nazis concentration camp. From 1947 to 1948 he studied at Borough Polytechnic under David Bomberg where [...]
