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A close-up study of Francis Bacon’s paintings, magnifying details and looking at underlying themes.

Francis Bacon famously resisted explaining his work, often claiming not to know what it meant. Yet this refusal has tended to discourage close looking, with critics favouring theoretical abstraction or biographical interpretation instead. Francis Bacon: Closer sets out to reverse that tendency. Rather than reducing Bacon’s imagery to familiar tropes – violence, distortion, the ‘screaming popes’ – it explo

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A close-up study of Francis Bacon’s paintings, magnifying details and looking at underlying themes.

Francis Bacon famously resisted explaining his work, often claiming not to know what it meant. Yet this refusal has tended to discourage close looking, with critics favouring theoretical abstraction or biographical interpretation instead. Francis Bacon: Closer sets out to reverse that tendency. Rather than reducing Bacon’s imagery to familiar tropes – violence, distortion, the ‘screaming popes’ – it explo

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