{"id":17824,"date":"2012-05-14T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:29:41","slug":"francis-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/05\/14\/francis-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A dark modernist.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No painters used photography more than <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2005\/07\/01\/degas-photographer\/ target=_blank>Degas<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/12\/08\/high-tech-hockney\/ target=_blank>David Hockney<\/a> and Francis Bacon (1909-1992).  For the last, it was the source of much of his output of dark, brooding, tortured canvases, familiar to all.  I doubt that his personality was captured better than by the expressionist photographer <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/03\/02\/bill-brandt\/ target=_blank>Bill Brandt<\/a> in this powerful portrait:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/BillBrandt_FrancisBacon.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"597\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bacon&#8217;s foundation has just released a free e-book on the painter, his studio and his use of photography, well explained in the first of the two included videos.  You can read more about it <a href=http:\/\/www.apieceofmonologue.com\/2012\/05\/francis-bacon-free-ipad-ebook-app.html target=_blank>here<\/a>, whence you can download it to your iPad at no cost.  The book is an example of where art publishing is headed and is beautifully done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dark modernist. No painters used photography more than Degas, David Hockney and Francis Bacon (1909-1992). For the last, it was the source of much of his output of dark, brooding, tortured canvases, familiar to all. I doubt that his personality was captured better than by the expressionist photographer Bill Brandt in this powerful portrait: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/05\/14\/francis-bacon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Francis Bacon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painters-and-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17894,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824\/revisions\/17894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}