Bacon

This volume presents a survey of the artistic works of Francis Bacon (1909-1992). Bacon, born in Ireland to English parents, was a figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos that lies within and struggling with all that is inexplicable. Bacon's erotic, grotesquely beautiful, haunting, and distorted figures have inspired entire generations of painters who seek to emulate his highly original style.