Francis Bacon

Here are all the artists Midjourney allegedly uses to train its AI

A newly exposed database lists up to 16,000 artists that the company has allegedly used to train its art-generation tools, from Frida Kahlo, to Yayoi Kusama, Banksy and Andy Warhol

Art & Photography

Jan 03, 2024

Thom Waite

Art & Photography

Campbell Addy photographer Feeling Seen book Prestel

Art shows to leave the house for this April

Safouane Ben Slama captures the ‘sweetness’ of the Paris suburbs, Harley Weir gets radical in London, and the Venice Biennale returns for another iteration of city-spanning shows

Art & Photography

Apr 11, 2022

Ashleigh Kane

Art & Photography

This exhibition takes you inside the studios of your favourite artists

A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020 is the new exhibition dedicated to investigating the spaces where great works of art have been made

Art & Photography

Feb 23, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Francis Bacon, “Second Version of Triptych” (1944, 1988)

Man and beast: Francis Bacon’s monstrous monster paintings

A new exhibition at the Royal Academy explores the artist’s fascination with animals and animalism

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Jan 28, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Louise Bourgeois, Garment from the performance of “She Lost

Art exhibitions to be excited about in 2022

A glimpse into the rarely-seen studios of legendary artists, an unprecedented encounter between Jenny Holzer and Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin in leafy woodland, Hilton Als paying homage to Toni Morrison, and much more...

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Jan 12, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Sandro Kopp’s art is the star of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

The artist was commissioned to create the masterpieces by the film’s criminally insane prodigy Moses Rosenthaler – here, he discusses making the art that acts as the drama’s significant plot point

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Nov 03, 2021

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Inside Wes Anderson’s world with The French Dispatch art director

Kevin Timon Hill – who also worked on Isle of Dogs – tours through The French Dispatch exhibition in London to reveal the elaborate process of bringing Anderson’s ideas to life

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Oct 22, 2021

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Francis Bacon and Peter Beard photographed in the 1970s

Exploring the relationship between Francis Bacon and his muse Peter Beard

A new exhibition chronicles the enduring friendship between the legendary painter and the renowned wildlife photographer

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Apr 26, 2021

Emily Dinsdale

Art & Photography

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, New York City, 1969

13 of the greatest artist biographies to live vicariously through

From Tracey Emin to Francis Bacon, Yayoi Kusama, and more, escape into the worlds of 13 artists who pushed life beyond its limit

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May 11, 2020

Gilda Bruno

Art & Photography

8 famous artists who dramatically destroyed their own artworks

We look at why John Baldessari burnt his art and baked cookies with the ashes, Francis Bacon slashed his best paintings, and Robert Rauschenberg erased a work by Willem de Kooning

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Jan 28, 2020

Lydia Figes

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Francis Bacon- Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud

The philosophy books that inspired Francis Bacon’s art

On what would’ve been his birthday, we’ve chosen five philosophy and psychoanalysis books that inspired the transgressive painter

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Oct 29, 2019

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Art & Photography

Why painter Francis Bacon was art’s greatest punk

Bacon’s art both repulsed and fascinated audiences equally, but revealed our most intimate, transgressive and unruly nature

Art & Photography

Feb 28, 2018

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Art & Photography

This new exhibition explores the intensity of life

The works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Jenny Saville, and more, come together in an invigorating show that celebrates how artists captured the reality of post-war life on canvas

Art & Photography

Feb 28, 2018

Ashleigh Kane

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