This series on Bacon, like all the podcasts so far, is tremendous.

Absolutely brilliant series. Thank you!

This was one of my favourite series by far - I didn't want it to end! Also my first ever comment on a YouTube video, that's how much I enjoyed this. Thank you

Really enjoyed this series. I loved the mix of storytelling, visual analysis, and the debate towards the end! Would love a series on Lucian Freud next. Both he and Bacon pushed portraiture in very different directions.

One detail I was surprised you didn’t mention: as I understand it, George Dyer’s body was discovered before the Grand Palais opening, and the decision was made not to report his death until after the festivities. His body remained locked in the hotel room while Bacon attended the reception. I think that adds an important—and deeply unsettling—dimension to the discussion of Bacon’s grief and guilt afterward. It certainly makes the Black Triptychs even more haunting. I’d be very interested in Alastair and James’s thoughts on that part of the story.

I love ,this! Thank you so much guys!👍💪

Just finished listening to/watching all three of the Michelangelo episodes. I loved them. There is a chemistry, humanity and understanding that you two bring which makes art come alive in a wonderfully engaging and totally accessible way—I really enjoyed your work.

Now, I have to admit that I too believe Michelangelo’s work on the Sistine Chapel is the greatest work of Western European art - period.

Having said that, as I listened to you talk about Michelangelo, I was waiting for you to discuss at least two things. First, to discuss “Jonah” as a masterpiece of Renaissance perspective, with Jonah’s figure seemingly leaning backwards on a surface that is itself physically curved and leaning forwards - for me, astonishing. Second, to explain why we can see God’s bottom in “The Creation of the Plants of the Earth” - what’s going on there?

However, don’t let those absences take anything away from this great podcast, a totally fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable series. Thank you!

Absolutely love hearing you two talk about art! Thank you! ❤

two handsome men talking about Francis Bacon's art, whats not to like!

I’d love a Time Machine to go back and visit Bacon in his prime and watch him paint!
Time travelling back to any artist’s prime years would be incredibly interesting! ❤

Greatly enjoying listening to you both, thank you.

Outstanding job, Guys..............I was pleasantly surprised to find your series on You Tube

Great videos! Thank you, guys

I LOVE the portrait of Muriel Belcher.

Thanks for the discussion of Bacon! I agree that Bacon development his style until his last period. I think that in his last period he didn't need the intense representations to express the most important theme of his work: the close bound of the sacred and the profane, and the sacred and the sacrilege (Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris dixit). And I totally agree about the fourth wound!! The violence is not a primitive or "impulsive" dimension: it's a sacred one, and Bacon understood that so well

I attended the loverly launch and am mightily relieved it's a good as I'd hoped... ancient as well as modern but thankfully not post-modern/'contemporary' crap...

What doesn’t get talked about enough is that although Bacon is a fine painter with oils, in almost all of his paintings he also uses spray cans too…like a rebellious graffiti artist!

You've given me a new appreciation of Francis Bacon's art - and of the man himself, so thank you!
Also, I love it when you both disagree! I think James won this time...although Alastair almost had you with 'cricket pads' 😂

- did Part 3 - I’m not afraid of Bacon the man - simply terrified of his art - anyway i read that humans are just “bugs that infested the planet” - difficult to be rid of this image - of course going to watch ur other episodes - tnx

Finally, part 3. Thank you, gentlemen.