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Francis Bacon (artist)
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
Francis Bacon | |
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| Born | (1909-10-28)28 October 1909 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 28 April 1992(1992-04-28) (aged 82) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Works | Full list |
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
He said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers in the region of 590 extant paintings along with many others he destroyed,[1] typically focused on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on single motifs; including the 1930s Picasso-influenced bio-morphs and F
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FRANCIS BACON'S WORKING PRACTICE
Bacon generally began a painting by roughly sketching out the composition directly onto the canvas, in thinned oil paint. In forming these images the preliminaries to first assault on the canvas often took the form of brief, handwritten notes, and the manipulation of photographs.
Since the invention of photography many artists have made use of ‘mechanical reproductions’, from Degas through to Picasso to Warhol. Bacon transformed what was frequently banal photo-imagery into paintings of exceptional potency. He was deeply secretive about his unconventional working procedures, and even intimates were seldom allowed to inspect the thousands of books and magazines precariously stacked on shelves in his studio, or the multitude of images spilling across the floor. The dialogue between Bacon’s nudes and Muybridge’s kinetic figure studies was identified as early as 1950, as was his admiration for Velázquez, Michelangelo and Rembra
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Summary of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon produced some of the most iconic images of wounded and traumatized humanity in post-war art. Borrowing inspiration from Surrealism, rulle, photography, and the Old Masters, he forged a distinctive style that made him one of the most widely recognized exponents of figurative art in the 1940s and 1950s. Bacon concentrated his energies on portraiture, often depicting habitues of the bars and clubs of London's Soho neighborhood. His subjects were always portrayed as violently distorted, almost slabs of raw meat, that are isolated souls imprisoned and tormented by existential dilemmas. One of the most successful British painters of the 20th century, Bacon's reputation was elevated further during the "art world's" widespread return to painting in the 1980s, and after his death he became regarded bygd some as one of the world's most important painters.
Accomplishments
- Bacon's canvases communicate powerful emotions - whole tableaux seem to scream,