Francis Bacon. Genius of distorted worlds

The work of the great British artist Francis Bacon is often called complex, incomprehensible, frightening. The contemporary artist, curator and art historian Kirill Zhilkin presents you with a bright and detailed description of the basic Bacon"s paintings and deciphens all hidden allusions, meanings and subtexts, which, perhaps, the most striking representative of the "London school" so often used.


To the exhibition of artists of the London School in the MiCUM named after Pushkin.

A unique guide for painting paradoxical, frightening, provocative, complex Francis Bacon, compiled by an artist, curator and art historian Kirill Zhilkin. The author of the book explains to the reader everything that seemed incomprehensible, convincingly protects what was considered reprehensible. The recipe for British artists of the London School is to hook the most powerful emotional strings of a person, and in this book you can learn about how one of its most outstanding representatives succeeded. The publication is supplemented by reproductions of paintings by Francis Bacon