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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born in Ireland (Dublin) in 1909. Distanced from his family by his father; he went to London in 1926 and set himself up as an interior decorator. His life became dissolute (drugs, drink, gambling etc..). Then he began to draw and paint. In 1934 he organised his first exhibition at the Transition Gallery but it was unsuccessful. In 1940 he destroyed almost all of his earlier works. Be it a cage, bidet, mirror, lump of flesh torn away from goodness knows what body, they where all painted from every different angle. It is only after a group exhibition in London in 1945 that his work started to be taken seriously. Between 1945 and 1950 he settled in the South of France, Francis Bacon's work exhibits human figures - flayed, screaming, disfigured by the anguish of life. Bacon got much of his inspiration from the works of the photographer Muybridge, from Picasso, Velasquez, from magazine photographs and films. Moving away from the misleading screens of existence , Francis Bacon is one of the major painters of the 20th century. He died in Madrid in 1992 |
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