Saville on Bacon

Friday, June 19, 2009

(Jenny Saville. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever.)

The Francis Bacon exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art serves up depictions of carcasses, sex, and a psychologically tortured pope. They're brutal, but impossible to ignore. Painter Jenny Saville explains why younger artists are so influenced by Bacon, and how he helped save painting from irrelevance. Produced by Sarah Lilley.

Guests:

Jenny Saville

Produced by:

Sarah Lilley

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david whitfield from france

Francis Bacon is one of the few artists who questions and explore mankinds' role to himself and his place in the world.
Painting is not just a commodity, to create money, a possesion like a new car, but has an essential role to play in the world; to try to give insight and challenge to society instead of the usual self centred fame so desired by so many of today's artists who lack the talent to create anything of relevance other than peurile gimicry.
Jenny Saville is also an artist who works through ideas and has the maturity to distance herself from the latest fashion and trends of todays' banal art scene.

Well done for displaying some genuine works of art.

Aug. 26 2010 03:10 PM

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