Francis Bacon shreds Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol in unheard tape

British master calls Johns painting False Start ‘ridiculous’ and Warhol’s works ‘very bad’They are two of the most revered American pop artists of the 20th century, but Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol were a source of derision for Francis Bacon, according to previously unheard recordings released to the Guardian.The British master can be heard dismissing one of Johns’s paintings as “ridiculous” and calling Warhol’s works “very bad”. Continue reading…
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