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...daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides," says Francis Bacon. Every once in a while, he stops one and puts it down on canvas. Full of atrocity and anguish, they are the most consistently disturbing images in modern art today...
...Bacon paints tragedy, and his works are both noble and enervating. Since he does not believe in life after death, he cherishes existence as a singular event: he is a fatalist taking arms against despair. "Life itself is a tragic thing," he says. "We watch ourselves from the cradle, performing into decay. Man now realizes that he is an accident, a completely futile being, that he has to play out the game without reason...
Professional Nomad. Collateral descendant of his courtly Elizabethan namesake, Bacon is a ruddy, puffy Pan whose brown hair is ungreyed at 54. He is a self-taught artist and a loner among modern artists. He lives like a loner-staying barely long enough in any one London flat to litter it and leave. Last week, having just ended a four-month toot, Bacon was back at his easel in a South Kensington mews flat that has been home for a scant fortnight. At the same time, 65 of his oils went on exhibit in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
...Microtomes that work like miniature bacon slicers on a piece of tissue no bigger than the tip of a baby's pinkie and cut it into slivers each less than one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch thick...
...omissions, of course, were as controversial as the selections. Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still exercised their customary refusal to be in group shows; Francis Bacon is currently miffed at Beaverbrook for selling two of his paintings, and he stayed out. The judges inexplicably omitted Hans Hofmann even as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a huge admiring retrospective of his work...