Francis Bacon

11 September 2008 - 4 January 2009

Resources

Tate Collection

• Francis Bacon on display at Tate Modern
• Francis Bacon in the Tate Collection

Multimedia

• What can the matter be?: 'Francis Bacon - Press the Flesh', Tate Modern audio tour podcast, 2006
• Why Damien Hirst thinks you can't get better than Bacon, TateShots Issue 17
• Stacy Makishi, 'Love letters to Francis', Tate: Remixed

TATE ETC. articles

• Linda Nochlin, Milan Kundera and others on Francis Bacon, TATE ETC., issue 14, 2008
• Wells, Francis, Alexa de Ferranti, Desmond Morris, and Dan Hays, 'Microtate', TATE ETC., issue 8, 2006
  Desmond Morris on Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (c.1944)
• Figgis, Mike, 'Encounters: In the Flesh', TATE ETC., issue 4, 2005
  Mike Figgis on Francis Bacon

Past exhibitions

• Francis Bacon in St Ives, Tate St Ives, 2007
• Francis Bacon: Paintings Since 1944, Tate Liverpool, 1990–1
• A Selection of Acquisitions of The Contemporary Art Society, Tate Gallery, 1946

Teacher resources

• Teacher's notes for this exhibition (PDF format, 500K)
  PDF files can be opened with free Adobe Reader software
• All Tate teacher resources for Francis Bacon

Beyond Tate

Reviews

Telegraph Online

‘Francis Bacon at Tate Britain: Bacon’s merciless slices of life’
Richard Dorment’s fairly thorough review of the show picks up on the emphasis on “…visual (as opposed to emotional) experience…” informing Bacon’s work.

‘The Culture Minute’
Richard Dorment gives a brief and personal view of the show, criticising Bacon’s work but praising the show as '..as good a Bacon exhibition as you are ever likely to see..'

Guardian Online

‘Reviews roundup: Francis Bacon at Tate Britain’
Oginia O’Dell gives an overview of the reaction of the critics’ reaction.

‘Painted screams’
Adrian Searle reviews the show positively but doubt’s Bacon’s authenticity.

Art podcast: Francis Bacon at Tate Britain
Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones takes a tour through the exhibition

Times Online

‘Frances Bacon: touching the void’
Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews the exhibition saying that, “Tate Britain's marvellous retrospective gives us a haunting vision of life stripped to the bone, a sense of macabre desolation.”

Metro.co.uk

‘A bad dream come true with Francis Bacon’
Fisun Güner reviews the exhibition focusing on Study For A Portrait Of Van Gogh VI, 1957 and the paintings about George Dyer’s suicide.

Evening Standard Online

‘The Francis Bacon I Knew’
Brian Sewell ignores the exhibition and instead gives us his opinions, anecdotes on Bacon the man and Bacon the painter.

‘Francis Bacon triptych at the Tate’
Louise Jury briefly reviews the show.

BBC News Channel

‘Artists anniversary exhibition’
Brenda Emmanus reviews the exhibition and interviews Matthew Gale

In Pictures: Francis Bacon Portraits

BBC Newsnight

Martha Kearney and the Newsnight Review panel Tony Parsons, Dotun Adebayo and Rachel Campbell-Johnston discuss the exhibition

Independent Online

All hail a vulgar entertainer: Francis Bacon retrospective
Tom Lubbock applauds the exhibition and Bacon's 'theatricality'