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Slaughterhouse
Bacon, who died in 1992 at the age of eighty-two, may well be the greatest exemplar of a wrongheaded tradition that we have ever seen. He had a knack for adapting all the wrong elements from all the right artists. He zeroed in on those moments when Van Gogh and Picasso were pushing their glorious anarchic energy to the brink of incoherence. This would have been fine, except that Bacon willfully ignored their ordering intelligence, preferring to sacrifice pictorial sensibility to literary sensationalism. What Bacon produced are not paintings, at least not satisfying ones. They are little more than rectangles of canvas inscribed with noirish graffiti: angst for dummies. Bacon turned his clever little quotations from the masters, old or modern, into the twentieth century's most august visual claptrap
From Shtetl to Château - The New York Review of Books
"Jackie Wullschlager's substantial biography draws on a wealth of unpublished letters still in the possession of his descendants to tell the story of Chagall's journey from shtetl to château. But not for an instant did it convince me that Chagall was a great or even an important artist."
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