Raw Bacon

An exhibit of Francis Bacon's 1950s paintings, Raw Human Emotion, is on at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, alongside a photography exhibit and the gallery's Remix. Bacon was a self-taught painter who was unimpressed with the pretensions of art world figures, and whose focus was more on translating human emotion onto the canvas. He died in 1992, soon after a series of discussions recorded in "Francis Bacon: In Conversation with Michel Archambaud" (Phaidon Press). The show is large and demonstrates the wide range of Bacon's subject matter. He said about art, "One learns by looking. That's what you must do, look." I did, and I recommend that you do, too, if you are heading down that way. (The Albright Knox has reciprocal membership privileges with the AGO). See the link at the right for more info.