THE SCHOOL of BACON

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Alex Russell, aka Alex Alien, claims to be Francis Bacon's successor! He is seeking anti-illustrational artworks by artists inspired by Bacon's art to feature on his web site.

"Anti-Illustrational Alien Art . . . goes straight to the nervous system, to the body by-passing the brain, it is the body, not the brain, that registers and 'reads' these arbitrary marks as brute facts of being-there . . . Instinct and Nervous System are the keys to the Bacon School." (Alex Alien)

" . . . Bacon would have found the School of Francis Bacon abhorrent. He would have laughed cynically at the idea. Artist, Scattergood-Moore, told me the idea of the Bacon school was 'ridiculous'. . ." (Alex Alien)

• ALEX RUSSELL ALIEN   England

  Early Self Portrait, 1979

  Being-There Self-Portrait, 1999

  • Alex Alien's School on Francis Bacon
    
    
  • Savage Messiah:  a  KenRussell  site by Iain Fisher:
  
  
  
  
• DAVID "CYPHER" MURPHY

  Cypher/The Panic Artist was born David Brenden Murphy in Dublin in 1971. His father died when he was six, and he spent much of life as a teenager taking care of his mother, who was frequently ill. He plunged into art seriously at the age of eleven, accumulating what became a vast art library, turning out hundreds and eventually thousands of paintings, drawings and assemblages. - The Oisin Gallery in Dublin.

  Cypher: Twenty Years of Panic Art ". . . a lot of Murphy's work has to do with the solipsistic world of his sexual life and, most controversially, the enormous influence of hard-core pornography on his imagination. . . Murphy has produced selfportraits of self-mutilation and howling anguish, or blunt depictions of the packaging of psychiatric drugs and anti-depressants. There's lots of urgently scrawled text concerning consciousness, memory, language, intractable issues of charged male sexuality, and the druggy youth subculture he encountered in his early 20s. . ."

  David had had a sheltered but deeply traumatic upbringing and as a teenager was hospitalised three times after suicide attempts. Yet during this period, he produced well over 1,000 works of tormented art. . .

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  Self-Portrait in Blue

  • Murphy's laws of panic art: The Irish Times: 11/7/00
    
    
  • The panic art of David Murphy
    
    
  • image: Silver Smear Self Portrait, 1999, oil on Arches
    
    
  • Screaming Self Portrait, 1999, oil on Arches
    
    
  
  
  
  
• JENNIFER O'CONNELL

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  Self portrait, 1999
  oil on canvas, 35" x 48"

  Jennifer O'Connell: "Painting and drawing are direct and responsive to immediate sensations, capable of infinitely translating truth and emotion unique to the artist. . . "

  • Jennifer O'Connell at Plattsburgh State Un. of NY.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  JENNY SAVILLE
  Matrix, 1999
  oil/canvas, 84" x 120"

• JENNY SAVILLE
  
  
  • Jenny Saville A Painter's Progress
  
  
  
• SONIA ZERO:
  
  
  • Sonia Zero at Alex Alien
    
  • image: Stepping Out
    
  • Image at right:   Vanitus,
    (inspired by Francis Bacon's Pope X!)
  
  
  
  

ADD   your candidates here . . .

• Lawrence Day   (New York FEW)
  
  
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Francis Bacon at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
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