Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions.
Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe with intense emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque, portraits are as much reflections on the trials and the traumas of the human condition as they are character studies. These haunting forms were also among the first in art history to depict overtly homosexual themes.
Author: Luigi Ficacci
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 07/31/2015
Series: Basic Art
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.3lbs
Size: 10.30h x 8.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9783836559690
Language: English
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