Francis Bacon: described by Mrs Thatcher as “that dreadful man who paints those horrible pictures´, he remains one of the most challenging and controversial artists of all time. It’s impossible not to react to his work, or to Pip’s compelling performance. Francis Bacon could spend his mornings painting, his afternoons and evenings drinking champagne and…
Looking uncomfortably like the Führer, Pip stands before a Nazi banner addressing his party faithful. He furnishes his audience with an acute anatomy of fascism; its ideological justifications; its poisoned utopias. They are in the presence of an utterly compelling idealist, and are helplessly drawn into his warped logic. What made Adolf Hitler so compulsive?…
