A brush with... Jeremy Deller
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Francis Bacon: A Classic Teenage Artist
Francis Bacon is an answer that we quite often get. He's a kind of classic teenage artist. It came at the right time for an angsty introverted 16-year-old, was to be into Francis Bacon because it made me feel like I was grown up liking this grown-ups art. Which historical artist do you turn to the most today? Well, probably in historical terms, probably people were making work thousands of years ago, we don't know their names. Those are the people that impress me most. The British Museum last year called Stonehenge but it was really not really about Stonehenge. That was a revelatory show and I thought I knew a little
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