Purple Art
[January 23 2025]
“Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol” at The Holburne Museum in Bath, opens tomorrow until May 5th
A reflective journey through mid-20th-century art, the exhibition revels in the tension between ephemeral snapshots and the timelessness of painted imagery. With a focus on the cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s, the works engage with themes of fame, identity, and the constructed nature of celebrity. By blending artistic nostalgia with post-war media critique, the exhibition creates a poignant, evocative dialogue between photographic source material and the transformative process of painting, embodying a unique melancholy and vitality.
