Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact

Name: Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Director: Michael Blackwood
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Released: 1987-04-28
Duration: 3480 s
Cast: Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, John Edwards

Directed by Michael Blackwood

1987 58m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary), [Biography](/on-demand/category/biography)

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In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him to the distorted realism of Van Gogh and Picasso, who also portrayed the intensity of life that Bacon calls “the brutality of fact.”