Comments on: Bacon Bashes “Dreary” Hockney http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/01/30/bacon-bashes-dreary-hockney/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Alex Alien http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/01/30/bacon-bashes-dreary-hockney/#comment-64 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:11:50 +0000 http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/01/30/bacon-bashes-dreary-hockney/#comment-64 Barry Joule's 'revelations' about Bacon calling Hockney 'dreary' and 'rubbish' are old news: Bacon also slagged off Hockney to Michael Peppiatt - as revealed in Peppiatt's biography on Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. Joule is just jumping on the Bacon Bandwagon trying to flog his fraudulent 'Bacon Archive' to the Tate. Bacon said that he could see why Hockney was so popular because people do not have to struggle with it - it is easy - like easy listening - like painting-by-numbers. Bacon told me he also hated Lucien Freud's work and found it too prissy, too detailed, too photo-realist with no invention. I wonder if Joule has a jewel on Bacon on Freud? Barry Joule’s ‘revelations’ about Bacon calling Hockney ‘dreary’ and ‘rubbish’ are old news: Bacon also slagged off Hockney to Michael Peppiatt - as revealed in Peppiatt’s biography on Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. Joule is just jumping on the Bacon Bandwagon trying to flog his fraudulent ‘Bacon Archive’ to the Tate.
Bacon said that he could see why Hockney was so popular because people do not have to struggle with it - it is easy - like easy listening - like painting-by-numbers. Bacon told me he also hated Lucien Freud’s work and found it too prissy, too detailed, too photo-realist with no invention. I wonder if Joule has a jewel on Bacon on Freud?

]]> by: Rosemary http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/01/30/bacon-bashes-dreary-hockney/#comment-58 Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:21:50 +0000 http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/01/30/bacon-bashes-dreary-hockney/#comment-58 Bacon called it right, IMO. Not a great fan of Bacon, but his work comes over as more honest than Hockney's. It has orginality and feeling without the 'see how clever I am' undercurrent that is in so much of Hockney's work. Bacon called it right, IMO.

Not a great fan of Bacon, but his work comes over as more honest than Hockney’s. It has orginality and feeling without the ’see how clever I am’ undercurrent that is in so much of Hockney’s work.

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