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What You Need to Know About Francis Bacon
Published: Dec 18, written by Kaylee Randall, BA Advertising & Public Relations (with Minors in Psychology & Dance Performance)
Not to be confused with 17th century Lord Chancellor of England and renowned philosopher, Sir Francis Bacon, the Francis Bacon we’re talking about here was a prolific 20th-century artist. Funny enough, though, he was also British.
With a life spanning from to , he was a powerhouse of art, returning to terrifying themes and emotional context. Here, we’re sharing everything you demand to know about the intriguing, triptych-loving painter.
Pablo Picasso Was the Reason Bacon Began to Paint
Surely, Picasso has been an inspiration for countless artists. But Bacon claims that not only was Picasso an influence, he was the reason. Bacon told the author John Gruen that Picasso “is the father figure who gave me the wish to paint“.
Bacon wasn’t a trained musician in any way, but he took cues from many of the masters who came before him. Of course, Picasso was one of those masters, but he also drew from the t
An artist that marked me: Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was missing from my animation when I was juvenile, although I didn’t grasp it.
Francis Bacon, an Irish artist known for his surrealist and disturbing operate, is somewhat predictable as the choice for my favourite artist. Growing up, I was always interested in somewhat disturbing ideas and media. Although I was a fairly gleeful kid, I just had this innate attraction to horrific ideas and images, albeit through a childish lens – my favourite film was The Nightmare Before Christmas, and my favourite book was the Goosebumps version of Phantom of the Opera.
These interests were not deemed especially unusual, but the way I expressed them was. I particularly remember, at around the age of five or six, drawing a picture of a vampire with blood around its mouth. My educator was, I suppose understandably, a little concerned about this, but I could only react with a sense of annoyance. I didn’t like the implications of her concern, that there were things I had to restrain myself from expressing, for the benefit of…who? What? So people could be
Francis Bacon is considered to be one of the most important and powerful painters of the 20th Century.
His huge career spaned over many important decades in human history. His works scout the distortion of the human figure, referencing images of sexuality, violence and brutality.
Francis Bacon’s figurative works are celebrated for their bold, graphic, and often tortured imagery. Inspired by the anatomy of animals, the distinction between human and creature is often blurred in Bacon's paintings.
Bacon's portraits often represent the subject as meat like characters without identity. The boundary between beast, animal and human is challenged and distorted which allows the viewer to scrutinize their own human mask and disguised animal urges.
Francis Bacon
Study of a Human Body after Ingres
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Lithograph in colours on arches paper
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In his initial years, Bacon had a difficult bond with his parents especially his father, who struggled with his son’s homosexuality. At a period
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Francis Bacon (28 October – 28 April ) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of nearby friends. His abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical cage like spaces, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon said that he saw images "in series", and his labor typically focuses on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. Francis Bacon saw his homosexuality as something to be overcome, and he “believed that he had been born homosexual and that there had never been any choice in the matter … [H]is feelings about his sexual tastes were strongly tinged with guilt.”
Bacon's output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on a single motif; start with the s Picasso-informed Furies, moving on to the s male heads isolated in rooms or geometric structures, the s screaming popes, and t