This video contains flashing images, viewer discretion is advised.
This is the story and artwork of Francis Bacon, the famous, Irish-born experimental and figurative painter born in 1909, in Dublin. His paintings were a prominent presence within the art community over many decades following the end of WW2, after exhibiting his tryptic called “Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion”, which would stun all that first saw it.
This is a full (and admittedly roughly edited) compilation video of a four-part series I worked on a while back called “Francis Bacon – A Tainted Talent”. You can still watch the original four episodes via the playlist below.
Full Series Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrk971WXT-U_KbNX_lIpSMvdpNzei03YC
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Bacon taught himself to paint, etc, but destroyed all his work up to 1943 29:31 when he wasn’t selected for a young painters exhibition… It’d be great if someone discovered a rare survivor…
Wow this popped up in my YouTube feed and it's such a treat! Brilliant job on an enigmatic character and artist, thank you
If he's having sex with his father's servants then it's probably through intimidation.
Some of his paintings are nightmare like, it's like he could conjure a horrific image yet paint it in an interesting way, I think it's fascinating, as if he captured a dark human thought and painted it.
Suggestion: artist to document with a video Roberto Matta. He was very influential but hardly recognized in art history.
Someone in my family was in a relationship with Francis. He is still alive and has one of his paintings. He always summed up Francis as “troubled” and doesn’t like to go into too much detail about it.
Space shanty
I was mistaken and thought this was about another Francis Bacon from the 16th century. I was waaay off… As a painter ,etc. I often wonder what made up stories or inspiration people will attribute to my works haha. People often over thinks works, with me I just try to painting what I see in my minds eye, no meaning at all, even now people make up thinsg as to why I did something a certain way… "Uh… no… how did you think that up??"
This documentary is riveting and insightful into the life of a great artist. Thank you!
now this is perfect guy life.
Very brilliantly done. Thank you.
49:00 An errect penis. Thinking about his sexual phantasies, masochistic, his father.
Can we please have the full version of your script now? I could listen and learn for another 3 hours!
The dark picture with the white figure like Picasso actually looks like two figures to me, the obvious one but then it looks like there’s another figure bent over beside that figure to the left looking like they’re perhaps putting him on the crucifix. It looks like the head is under the veil
Outstanding effort.
Thank you.
In the 1989 Batman movie, a Francis Bacon painting is the sole painting that Jack Nicholson's Joker chooses to spare from destruction during the art museum scene.
France is bacon
The face of a man who can no longer trust trying to grin and bare it and also look dismissive and annoyed
Thanks for this epic work!
I am really grateful that I get to watch this documentary thank you for what you do
You’re one of the best art analysis/essay channels on YouTube
absolutely phenomenal documentary and art analysis.
Francis Bacin is a marvel
He was a gay guy that was a horrible Moody and manipulative man.
I think hes an average artist really. Him and Andy Warhol are over rated and …just this guy was an asshole. I dont care how horrible he thought his life was being mad and acting like a bully cause he was mad he was gay is no excuse to act like that?
I can’t imagine the work it must take to make these beautiful documentaries. Thank you. Your passion for art, painting & painters is palpable. I have always loved art & have a fascination for the dark & “ugly”, so discovering your channel has been so cool because I likely wouldn’t know of most of these works nor of the artists’ lives. It makes the pieces that much more haunting & intriguing to know what may have led them to these dark depictions. Again, thank you; your art has shown myself & so many others beautiful stories of artists who have created beautiful art. ❤
Great work
This was done so very very well. Very interesting.
We look back on systemic homophobia with so much collective embarrassment now… I wonder which attitudes we'll look back on with the same collective shame 100 years from now.
Now I know where the Silent Hill creators got their nightmare fuel creation inspiration.
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Omg He was Abused by that Priest tutorer….he has all the side effects of childhood sexual abuse! Then he was physically abused to by his father! Thankfully his art was his therapy! Now his art makes sense to me.
Said it himself he doesn't know what he is doing lol glorified doodles
Soooo dark and SO talented.
The screaming pope picture looked cool, but it's obvious that Bacon just painted ugly, gross, low-effort shit.
44:23 This is Francis in his mother’s clothes.
Or not…
(I'm french my English is sometimes terrible i don't know if the words translate correctly but) I had to write an essay (I believe it's the right word to describe a dissertation in french high school) and had a 16/20 on the painting of the Pope (the one with the longest title, the biggest pope painting) wich is great and since then I spent a lot of time learning about Bacon's life and understood how an artist is not just an artist in the body of a human, but a human living the life of an artist. His life is as important as his art and we rarely talk and usually skip the life of the artist when looking at the art.
Hey, if you're reading this, can you lake a video about Alex Grey ? I'm not sure if it's the kind of artist you talk about or not tho, but I don't see enough people talking about him
I spent some of the most interesting 2 hours watching your video, thank you
I remember watching the videos when you first posted them, I wanted to rewatch but always forgot to. I'm glad that you decided to post all of them in a bigger video, I really like your content
I watched more than 10 documentaries on Francis Bacon, this is the most accurate video I've ever seen. Good job on all your research, on the best painters that ever lived!
Have to give this 2 or 3 full watch through because this is so well done and packed with knowledge thank you for your time on this project
So, I really like the expressive qualities of his work, but ultimately his work is too dark and sad for me… which is weird because I love dark, expressive art. But idk, there's just something about his work that makes me feel drab, empty and a little bit angry.
Oddly enough, the 2 unfinished paintings that were found after his passing, were my favorite out of all the paintings shown in the video.
How strange that he painted George on a toilet only for George to be found passed away on a toilet, what an odd self-fulfilling prophecy.
Francis did not seem to be very fond of eyes. That is the one thing that stands out to me.
Handkerchief head covering with a knot at each corner was used as a head covering /protection from the Sun, in the 1950/60s. That's what he is painting on George's head.
Brilliant!!!
this was beautifully executed. bless you
Adrian Lyne was also inspired by Francis Bacon for his film Jacob’s Ladder. In the screenplay there are biblically literal devils with horns and angels with feathered wings. Lyne wanted something more grounded and disturbing and so he looked to Bacon’s paintings as inspiration for the more abstract demons in the movie.
Brilliant! Fascinating! Thank you.
In Dublin, at one of the museums, I saw in 2016 a complete replica of his painting studio. As in, someone took everything out of it and recreated it inside the museum. Filthy! Repugnant! So visceral in effect. … I find his work very hard to look at. The deliberate grossness of it. Genius.
This documentary saved my entire art career. I say this without any exaggeration, thank you so much for your incredible work. I loved his work for so many years but I watched the series a year and a half ago. I literally just had my first exhibition and I am graduating as an honors fine arts this year. I cannot express my gratitude enough. Thank you.
I had to choose between art and music in school. I was in a arts magnet program in highschool and I was already double majoring in french horn and classical singing. In senior year I had room for one elective and I picked art. I wish I had prioritized it more because I am pretty good. Your videos are amazing for me, really easy to digest and engaging. I hate that I didn't get to take art history or anything like that. I'm so grateful for you 💚💚 thank you for your work.