1) ☕️☕️☕️🥃🍷🫖🍿🧀🥜🍏-always a drink & breakfast or snack
2) tagged book, The Art of Rivalry
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1) ☕️☕️☕️🥃🍷🫖🍿🧀🥜🍏-always a drink & breakfast or snack
2) tagged book, The Art of Rivalry
I picked up this fascinating, informative book at the Met today. On the train home I read about the artists Freud & Bacon, who I am ashamed to say I knew absolutely nothing about until this book.
It was such fun to see the City all dressed up for The holidays!
#SinisterArt Day 23
I have not read the tagged book, but I have read other Porter books & would be interested in his take on one of my favorite artists. I have seen Bacon's paintings in person a few times & they are unforgettable. (Pictured: Painting 1946)
so-soOnce I finished this, I had no idea what I just read. Thank god it‘s under 100p. I think it‘s about a painter in the present and his unfinished painting/ ideas. But I could be something else entirely 🤷♀️.
Since I loved “Lanny”, I‘m a little sad about not getting this one.
so-soLike @BookishTrish said, I think this‘ll best be enjoyed by people who know Francis Bacon and his work. I gave this two stars but I‘m not panning this one (an exception I can only make for the best) because I truly believe Porter is a genius and that might shine through this book for other readers in ways I haven‘t been able to grasp. I was confused the whole time about what I was reading but Max, I‘ll read anything you put out ❤️
so-soA frantic, fragmented imagining of Francis Bacon‘s last days. This book is best enjoyed by people who - unlike me - are more knowledgeable about Bacon‘s life and work.
Actual photo of my scream of joy upon finding out just now about the tagged book. To be published next year.
panI suppose if you‘d like a cursory insight into the lives of 8 male painters of the modern era and how their charged relationships with their fellow art peers of the time shaped them, this may be of interest to you. But I didn‘t care for it. It felt very flat, lacking a compelling thesis, and the organization didn‘t have a flow. It read like 4 separate essays, even though there was a lot there to dig into on a deeper level but Smee didn‘t go there.
Thank you so much @squirrelbrain such a perfect book! Thank you - I shall really, really enjoy reading that. And of course chocolate is always perfect! Thank you for making my day so lovely 😊
