David Given Schwarm

I watched this DVD this morning with Cody. It was mostly just images with naration providing the title of the work and the year painted. Occasionally, the narrator would appear to read from Bacon’s journals or something which was very very awkward. Other then that the narrator just stated the obvious–and with Bacon that can often be comical.

The complete lack of anaylsis was interesting. The sound track (during the menu and during the credits, as well) was awesome, but during the film there was no sound.

The early images were all black and white reproductions–some of which I had not seen before.

The paintings were presented in a somewhat chronological and somewhat thematic way–but not enough of either to indicate any curritorial intent. Really, the selection and presentation was so strange that it made the difficulty of Bacon’s images even stronger.