The Francis Bacon exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art serves up depictions of carcasses, sex, and a psychologically tortured pope. They’re brutal, but impossible to ignore. Painter Jenny Saville explains why younger artists are so influenced by Bacon, and how he injected the art of painting with a sorely needed relevance for the 20th century and beyond. [Produced for PRI‘s “Studio 360“.]
Jenny Saville, “Hyphen” (1999).
Music featured:
- “The Nasty” – by Amon Tobin
- “Mighty Micro People” – by Amon Tobin