Francis Bacon is celebrated as one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. From the 1940s to his death in 1992, he worked consistently as a painter, ignoring other passing, fashionable trends in art. Throughout his career, the human figure was the dominant subject in his work: his paintings of men and women go far beyond a simple likeness and instead are portraits of complex psychological states. In two essays, this book examines forty of some of his most intense works: his small-format portraits.
Bacon himself had one of the most striking and extraordinary big heads I've ever seen, perfectly captured in the famous Lucian Freud painting. I suppose you need an extraordinary head to create the extraordinary art. Huge head with huge ideas rattling around inside: lift up the head and out pours the most iconic imagery in 20th century art.
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