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...Francis Bacon Triptych, $? per share Not everyone can afford to own a masterpiece. So how about not owning one?...
...In maturity, both men turned to the study of apes, Thomas Henry using skeletons and soft-tissue specimens in his work on comparative anatomy, Julian observing the behaviour of living creatures in the wild...
...It’s 1968 and a current of shock runs through a cinema audience as they watch The Planet of the Apes draw to its close. In the audience sits a particularly rapt man....
...Writing two years later, the contemporary chronicler John Francis vividly told the tale: “No other panic was ever so fatal to the middle class....
...And then there is Francis Bacon, whose theme and subject is the bestial condition of humankind — instinctual, rapacious, stalked, caged....
...Francis Bacon’s gaping terrified mouths, of men and monkeys, come to mind. Moreau’s glittery fabulist world delights and engrosses, surprises and reveals....
...Bacon investigated humanity by portraying it stretched to its primal limits: look forward to a parade of apes, dogs, bulls, contorted birds of prey — and, of course, biped mammals too....
...And there have been blood bonds between author and guardian: Felix Francis published 13 books under the Dick Francis banner after his father’s death in 2000....
...Francis Bacon asked. “You could go for the whole of your life painting the same subject.”...
...Francis Bacon wanted to be a member of the Surrealists, but did not quite make the grade — they disapproved of the “religious elements” in his work....
...Co-Founder and CEO, Avalon Ai Alex Asseily Founder, Jawbone, State and Chiaro Alex Chesterman Founder and CEO, Zoopla Property Group Alex Depledge Founder, hassle.com; and Chair, Coadec Alex Francis...
...The very first episode began with devious Tory whip Francis Urquhart holding up a picture of Margaret Thatcher and uttering the lines: “Nothing lasts forever....
...By contrast, in central Africa, great apes provided a constant reminder for the animists that nature is a continuum....
...So he loves crossover people, he explains, and he’ll do his bit to show what you didn’t expect: he’s bringing a set of little Polaroids by David Bailey of the film Planet of the Apes....
...This alchemy of art and science has since driven movies from Avatar to Rise of The Planet of the Apes....
...True, Scozzi apes Laurent Pelly’s wacky, gag-driven approach – no wonder, as she did the choreography for many of his shows – but she does so brilliantly and earns her own stripes by welding such disparate...
...Stealing brass door knockers was known as “noisy dog racket” according to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose, now online....
...city as barometer for a fragile system: from architect Sir John Soane’s depictions of his yet-to-be-built Bank of England in ruins, like a Roman palace, to memorable images from the movie Planet of the Apes...
...Both artists queasily ape naturalist conventions but are painters of time as much as space. That is surely why Shaw particularly selects Sutherland’s most provisional, metamorphosing images....
...The fictional protagonist is said to be a descendant of English explorer and buccaneer Sir Francis Drake....
...Delany; Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture by Eric Greene; The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston …………………………………………………………….....
...The political inflection comes from the effete fin-de-race gods, faux muscle bunnies who strap on moulded pectorals to ape Leni Riefenstahl’s Aryan athletes and christen their finished castle Germania in...
...There are interludes of manic humour, with Francis Duchame tearingly funny as an ape-man, and frenetic scenes where the cast race about and suffer, and Helder Seabra shows himself a tireless, vivid player...
...From the opening rhythmic stridencies that ape Messiaen to the pulsating woodwind (Berg), all the main influences of 20th-century music are here, wrapped up in a 12-tone envelope....
...Like Rossini, whose Guillaume Tell he apes, Hérold could call on the best singers around. Paris in 1831 was not only the centre of the operatic world but also had a strong home-grown team....
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