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BACON Francis
(1909-1992)
"Je suis sûr que chaque artiste se situe quelque part, travaille à partir dâun certain héritage et se trouve placé sur une certaine trajectoire. De même dâailleurs quâil sâingénie à enfoncer avec obstination le même clou, mais cela est une autre histoire."
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Francis BACON - Detailed biography |
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Francis Bacon was born in 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 1940 he
destroyed almost all of his earlier works. From 1944 the artist began to assert
himself, and became very violent in his methods of treating the human cry and
all things sacred. Expressed in the form of triptychs and series, Francis
Baconâs 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, Vélà squez, from magazine photographs and
films. He painted in series: Crucifixions, Popes, Van Goghâs, ill-defined
animals, male nudes, auto portraits, portraits of friends, (Lucien Freud,
Michel Leiris, etc.) on which he inflicts horrendous graphics and chromatics,
always in the same endeavour of obtaining the perception of âthe crude and in
the heat of the momentâ. He died in Madrid
in 1992.
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