Art Enthusiasts Embrace Public Domain Freedom Day 2024
Art entering the Public Domain is always a highly anticipated annual event. Artists, creators, and consumers mark a wealth of creative treasures that become available for public use by a frenzy on social media. This year’s celebration is particularly memorable,...
Lucian Freud And His Circle Surveyed In Two London Exhibitions
In Bruce Bernard: Portraits of Friends and in a noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963, we see the group conviviality which underpinned the angst typically depicted in the work of these...
Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace. It is not Munch’s shrill scream of terror. Bacon’s mouth is cavernous, the lips curled in a snarl to reveal rows of potentially castrating...