Title: Head VI
Year: 1949
Original Size: 93.2 x 76.5 cm
Technic: Oil on Canvas
Location: Arts Council / Londra - İngiltere
Francis Bacon's works are alarming and breath taking. Their extreme jostling nature pierces our conception of the human body and spirit in their intimate and meaty figures. Born in Dublin in 1900, he would be known as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century.
Bacon dealt directly with the nature of humanity and the presence that lurks beneath the skin. His horrific filets of vibrantly colored living corpses stared surrealistically at the onlooker as if forever caught in some moment of intense agony. Flat backdrops, ambiguous scenery and high-contrast color palettes commonly accompanied this blasphemies, giving a brilliant juxtaposition of poppy cleanliness and gore.
"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence... as a snail leaves its slime." - Francis Bacon.
His works are groundbreaking in their direct assault of the human form. A destructive appreciation for all things in man, as well as a deep and moral loathing. His work would lay the ground for many expressionist artist in years to come, such as Ralph Steadman.
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