Francis Bacon: five decades - behind the scenes 3

Come behind the scenes to see how the Art Gallery of NSW team put together the upcoming Francis Bacon exhibition. In the third and final part we see the paintings come out of the crates and go onto the walls of the Gallery ready for the exhibition to open.
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Produced by the Art Gallery of NSW
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Francis Bacon: five decades
Francis Bacon is a towering figure of 20th-century art. His paintings are gutsy, controversial and unforgettable. With painful beauty Bacon lays bare the struggles of the human condition.
Surveying Francis Bacon's life and work, this is the first major exhibition in Australia of rare works by the master of post-war British art. With over 50 paintings -- including some of his well known triptychs -- the exhibition covers five decades of his career, from the pensive and shocking works of the 1940s to the exuberantly coloured and visceral large paintings of the 1970s and 80s.
The works have been drawn from 37 collections including the Tate London, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Shown alongside the paintings is a wealth of archival material from his chaotic London studio, offering a fascinating insight into the artist and his creative process.

[@jacobusbaker9285]

Some are really charged and magical and that is very hard to bring about, speaking as a painter myself.

[@azimovist]

The woman imposing joyousness on Bacon is pathetic. We don't need the viscera excused we don't need candy coating. We need painting unencumbered by gutless rationalization.

[@djermeow3136]

2:56 "...let go of that sense of horror, and resistance to the horror, to see that they are also about life..." - Macushla

[@araxa8]

i feel like the glass hides the texture

[@bobsbigboy_]

Yea the glass ruins it

[@andobil]

Anthony has super powers... BIL

[@99thehighstreet69]

The two figures on the bed .In todays money bacon got 1200 quid less tax and 20 percent to david sylvester for selling it to freud.what hope.

[@R_Durand]

When will there be a Bacon retrospective in California??

[@МаксУстинов-ч8с]

Интересные работы

[@aysheaahmed348]

Wonderful

[@sebastianmelmoth685]

I LOATHE his art. However, I can recognise the brilliance.

[@robertpayne4435]

The buggers---was painted in winter in a garage. Which I was there.

[@carravagio16]

pump the brakes on bacon being the greatest painter of the 20th century

[@keylupveintisiete7552]

Nope.

[@keylupveintisiete7552]

There is just another level of complexity in technique and concept, perfectly blended together to form a unity

[@bobsbigboy_]

Picasso is overrated. Bacon was the most vivid

[@sebastianverney7851]

'Greatest painter of the 20th century', the view of this exhibition's curator. Good video. Pity about the fashionable muzak