His life was spent between the two world wars, his childhood was problematic for his asthma prevented him from attending school regularly. At the age of 16, her father gave her the house for his open homosexuality. He lived from Dublin (his hometown) and London, then traveled throughout Europe until settling in London. swearing continuously of his works and even got to destroy some. Their sexual tendencies bordering on masochism in a time where being gay was considered almost as an aberration ...
Francis Bacon was an artist tormented and tortured by his guilt, expressed in his work like no unbankrupt existential twentieth century society . His figures are oppressed by rectangular shapes lock them with his mouth open as if to cry or gasp for air. The bodies are reduced to flesh writhing sheer mass or moving like animals.
The artist never came to be accepted within the current world Surreal , his paintings went beyond the world of dreams to dissect the harsh reality that we are all little more than animals to the slaughterhouse.
Bacon was deeply atheist. In his painting is linked with the current existentialist , although he always denied such a relationship. He was obsessed with the painting of Velázquez , particularly with the Portrait of Pope Innocent X, which made several studies. Another of his most famous series was the Crucifixion , meaning for him as an atheist, like the idea of \u200b\u200bsacrifice, denying all meaning for the believer.
painting Francis Bacon is the less disturbing. Some of his creations inspired to create the monsters of the series game Silent Hill . work Masahiro Ito responsible for the design of the monsters of the game, seems to closely resemble the work of Bacon .
Until 19 April seen in the Prado Museum in Madrid a great example of the artist's work following the path of his life. Tables may not be pleasing to many, but certainly they have a strength and expression overwhelming, and this is what makes them a unique works.
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