Barbara DawsonResenhas

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No artist's studio rivals Francis Bacon's in terms of sheer iconic pungency. The artist's furious hurricanes of creativity were writ large upon its walls, scattered across its floors in a sea of paint pots, brushes, discarded canvases and much-abused source and reference materials, all of which seemed to bespeak Bacon's chaotically rigorous processes: bodybuilding snaps, reproductions of Muybridge time-lapse sequences, photo-booth self-portraits, magazine cuttings, tattered monographs, medical textbooks with images of unusual and often horrific wounds and diseases, and countless photos of friends such as Lucian Freud, John Deakin, Isabel Rawsthorne, Muriel Belcher and George Dyer, from which the artist built his portraits of them. Bacon's exceptional eloquence on the subject of his painting process, taken in combination with the iconicity and visual impact of his studio, enables his admirers to envisage something of how his paintings were made. In celebration of the centenary of Bacon's birth, and chiming with an exhibition at the Dublin City Gallery, A Terrible Beauty excavates Bacon's studio to reveal the methods, materials and processes through which Bacon arrived at his paintings.

Published on the occasion of Anne Madden, Trajectories 1995 - 1997 exhibition at Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1997

Published on the occasion of Brigid Ganly, Retrospective exhibition at Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1998

Published on the occasion of A Silent Scream, Recent works by Patrick O' Reily exibition at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane December 1996

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