Francis Bacon: Man and Beast | Tour

[@Beatrizbulsara]

I'm not a person who's studied art, I only know about it what I've learnt watching videos and reading articles and going to museums. Yet, there's something about Bacon I truly like. I don't know what it is. I like other painters, other styles, they're wonderful, but Bacon... Whatever it is, he had it.

[@LucyLouMinou]

Breathtaking… Presence of greatness. Bacon was a genius.

[@TheBearAspirin]

Just visited this amazing show. Later in the week went to The Courtauld for the Van Gogh Self-Portraits exhibition. I feel so lucky to have been in London during this time frame!

[@aynursahin3112]

Thank you very much great and interesting paintings. Sincerely,

[@LucyLouMinou]

I totally agree.

[@almohvn33]

HUGE FAN! DISTURBINGLY GORGEOUS!

[@LucyLouMinou]

Unbelievable painter.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

Awesome to see these on dark walls. Curators... well done.

[@LucyLouMinou]

Yes, interesting. I agree. Good idea of one curator ore a few.

[@LucyLouMinou]

Really points up the specific ingenuity of all these works.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

@@LucyLouMinou I've loved Bacon since I was a teen, moved to NYC for 16 years and even worked at the Whitney, never saw one. Visited L.A. for a week and went to a ritzy restaurant (Morton's - does not exist now but famous w/ Oscar party crowd) and saw one hanging and was stunned. A waiter confided in me it was actually a reproduction and the owner had sold the real deal, who knows tho. The wall paint and paintings in this exhibit are like nothing I've seen (and I virtually lived at the Met every week for years, seen it all). It works to contrast garishly well w/ Bacon's brilliant oranges and in other instances it works in concert w/ the painting, like an echo chamber, such as the dark brown w/ the paralytic child painting. So much of the enjoyment of Bacon is those wide open spaces of color and each phase of him it's like a new box of colors. Even the "groovy" 70s period w/ the pinks and the spray is one I love and his "covers" of his earlier work, particularly when he gets into these day-glow yellows and even his maroons on the redo of the '45 triptych are just gorgeous. Another thing regarding the curation here: The lighting. With that older glass having the higher iron content, the way they use toned down the lighting really removes the glares and reflections in the glazing. If you were any part of that, it's world class. And again, as I got into any museum in the world free w/ my Whitney ID card, I've seen just about everything.

[@LucyLouMinou]

@@edwardrichardson8254 Thank you very much for this sometimes surprising and - in any case - absolutely interesting and so competently comprehensive answer! If, all in all, I can only reply on this later. Very late… Hope to meet you later, dear alligator, I’ll have a while with crocodile. -:)

[@Flappoxy]

Which music was playing in the background ?

[@darylcumming7119]

A comment about the irrational and the rational thought or behaviour ?

[@dodgygoose3054]

I wonder if he ever slept?

[@Hoddleful]

The nightmares are on canvas.

[@dodgygoose3054]

I wonder if its deeper than that, & is this what he saw in himself & in others.@@Hoddleful

[@chvishal]

Disappointed with the lack of swine related pieces.

[@jnorth1000]

Aw you poor little piggie