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Heath Ledger’s Joker was based on a Francis Bacon painting, says Christopher Nolan
Hollywood director is one of several leading creatives to speak of Bacon’s influence ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Nolan, known for his Hollywood blockbusters with complex storylines, such as Memento, Interstellar, Tenet and the Dark Knight trilogy, said that to see a Bacon “in the flesh” was to understand how medium informs the message. “His work inspires me in many ways, not least as a reminder that to merely illustrate a narrative is to miss the power that unconscious gestures and intuitive image making can achieve.” And John Maybury recalled being an art student “living in a squat” in South Kensington in the late 1970s and seeing Bacon “scuttling along, or coming out of Dino’s diner”.
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