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Bacon's arena: an art of pain and beauty
Despite the carnage and horror in his paintings, Francis Bacon insisted that beauty was his inspiration. This program explores Bacon's life and work, from his troubled Edwardian childhood to his death in Madrid in 1992. Using rarely seen archival fi...
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The nude in art: the modern
In the last episode we deal with The Modern period of art. Manet's Olympia, Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and Bacon's Triptych are among those artworks used to illustrate how the 20th century changed everything. Emotional truth overcame physic...