Picasso – Bacon with Michael Peppiatt
In this episode of Lange Ohren, Felix von Boehm meets art historian, author and curator Michael Peppiatt in London. Peppiatt was a close friend of Francis Bacon for almost three decades. Taking the exhibition PICASSO – BACON as their starting point, they explore the fascination Pablo Picasso held for the young Bacon and how his admiration for a great artistic role model gave rise to a distinctive visual language of his own.
What does it feel like to be human? This question connects two artists who radically reimagined the human body. The conversation moves from Bacon’s encounter with Picasso’s drawings...