Timeline: Moments of Francis Bacon

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Moments of Francis Bacon

 

Francis Bacon was one of the fundamental painters of the second half of the 20th century.

Although he declared not to be part of any movement, we may include him in the School of London, a group of painters with very different styles who painted in London after the Second World War. The main characteristics these painters share are figurative painting (representational, in contrast to abstract art) and that their works reflect a look full of existential anguish.

Master of the resource that we call "emotive distortion," his characters are deformed by pain, by despair, suffering the torment of a life that was essentially violent.

 

1944. Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

1946. Painting

1952. Study for a Portrait

1953. Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X

1954. Figure with Meat

1962. Three Studies for a Crucifixion

1965. Crucifixion

1966. Portrait of George Dyer Talking

1969. Three Studies of Lucian Freud

1973. Self-Portrait

1973. Self-Portrait

1973. Two Figures with a Monkey

1975. Three Studies for Self-Portrait

1976. Portrait of Michel Leiris

1978. Painting

1979. Sphinx

1981. Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus

1983. Edipo y la Esfinge después de Ingres

1984. Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards

1991. Study for the Human Body

 

Recommended links:

Francis Bacon: “My painting is not violent; it is life that is violent.”

School of London.

Timeline: Moments of Lucian Freud.

Timeline: Moments of David Hockney.

A Bigger Splash (1967), David Hockney.

David Hockney, 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life.

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