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From: Category: Art Date: 03 July 2008 Time: 10:18 AM Review: I am not justifying the prices, but I must say something in favour of the psychological aspect of the paintings that Bacon made. I think the directness in which he says (even only) what you say he says, is unique, simple and clean. I think this load is something difficult to do in painting. And yes, he says it again and again. All painterssaythesamething again and again and this is why this is a slow art. The colour. I really believe he is the last english painter to use and understand colour in an inteligent way. Since then, the painters use COLOURS, some often and think that doing so is putting in ALL THE COLOURS they can find all together in a Batchelorian kind of way. Baconīs orange is like, say, Yves Klein Blue. Just the best use of Orange in the 20th C.