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Francis Bacon Gallery, installation view of three of the six unfinished works in the collection. These works span Francis Bacon’s career from the period of his first major breakthrough in the 1940s to the last years of his life when he had attained the status of the leading figurative artist of his time. Hugh Lane Gallery, 2023.
May 17, 2021 · There is a book, “Interviews with Francis Bacon,” of the conversations he had with the art critic David Sylvester, who was also a friend, between 1962 and 1986.
Celebrated for his visceral portraits, Francis Bacon produced some of art history’s most powerful images of the human condition. In a career spanning almost the entire 20th century, he asked whether it was possible to seal the raw pulsations of the flesh in paint. Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909.
Francis Bacon 1952. Lucian Freud (1922–2011) Tate. Francis Bacon, like his friend Lucian Freud, kept British figurative painting alive and fresh in a period when abstract and conceptual art were increasingly dominant. His tortured figures were born out of the influence of Picasso and Surrealism, but also express a later twentieth-century anxiety.
Nov 12, 2018 · Francis Bacon had a rare knack for harnessing our deepest, darkest emotions. His torrid paintings of wailing mouths and writhing figures embody primal human urges, like desire and release, and timeless sensations, such as heartbreak and horror. “I’ve always hoped to put over things as directly and rawly as I possibly can,” he told critic ...
Apr 29, 1992 · Francis Bacon, the Irish-born painter whose abstract images of psychological and physical brutality made him one of the most exalted, and most disliked, artists of the postwar era, died yesterday ...
Figure with Meat. 1954. Permeated by anguished visions of humanity, Francis Bacon’s paintings embody the existential ethos of the postwar era. In his powerful, nihilistic works, tormented and deformed figures become players in dark, unresolved dramas. Bacon often referred in his paintings to the history of art, interpreting borrowed images ...
