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From: hypo Category: Art Date: 05 September 2008 Time: 08:28 PM Review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/06/bacon.art Jones lards the bacon. Every day there are a 1000 articles on francis bacon at the tate. So much so that I thought I might go see the show. Oh... It's not on yet. It doesn't start for a week. Just because Bacon is British does not mean he is good. He is a trumped pseudo-existentialist whose work from photos has launched a million terrible art students. Just havin a smeary face with its mouth open or a vacuum cleaner crossed with an elephant, or a religio-triptych does not give meaning to your work. He is the most overrated artist of now and the tate hype machine seems to be working very very well, soon we will even believe he is an important artist.