• Francis Bacon was one of the most uncompromising artists in twentieth-century British art. From the 1940s onwards, he redefined figurative...

    Francis Bacon in his studio in London in 1974. 

    ©Francis Bacon, ©Alamy, commercial license 

     

    Francis Bacon was one of the most uncompromising artists in twentieth-century British art. From the 1940s onwards, he redefined figurative painting with distorted studies of the human body that exposed the fragile tension between life and death. Born in Dublin, Bacon drew on a life marked by chaos and introspection, transforming philosophy and experience into a lifelong examination of what it means to simply exist.
     
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  • “I think of myself as a medium for accident and chance.”

     

    - Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon’s path to becoming an artist was far from traditional. He never attended art school or followed any formal apprenticeship. In his early career, he worked as an interior designer before turning to painting after visiting an exhibition of Picasso’s at Paul Rosenberg’s Paris gallery in the late 1920s. Picasso’s biomorphic depictions of the human form revealed to Bacon the vast expressive possibilities of painting, marking a turning point in his creative direction. He would later cite Picasso as one of his most significant influences.

  • Francis Bacon Biography

    A Life of Chaos, Creation and the Human Condition     ©Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Notable Works

    Defining Works That Shaped His Career     ©Royal Academy London