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Francis Bacon that is!
he is a self taught english painter,was highly influenced by Pablo Picasso and Surrealism.

the paintings include images of either friends or lovers, or images of people found in movie stills, reproductions of historic paintings and medical photos.

His people scream in physical and psychic pain, seemingly tortured in bedrooms, bathrooms and cages. His work was always expressionist in style with distorted human and animal forms, potent images of corrupt and disgusting humanity.

* I was going to put these up through a image host...but another gallery I created got ruined by one of the host being shut down effectivly ruining the thread*

~enjoy!

Painting

Head VI

Study for Crouching Nude

Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X

Man with Dog

Self-Portrait

Second Version of Triptych 1

Second Version of Triptych 2

Second Version of Triptych 3

Three Studies for a Crucifixion 1

Three Studies for a Crucifixion 2

Three Studies for a Crucifixion 3

Study for a Portrait of John Edwards

Three Figures, One with Shotgun

Carcase of Meat and Bird of Prey

Triptych 1983 Version 1

Triptych 1983 Version 2

Triptych 1983 Version 3

Three Figures and a Portrait

Second Version of
"Painting 1946" done in 1971

Study After Velazquez the II

Portrait of George Dyer in a Mirror

Three Studies of Muriel Belcher 1

Three Studies of Muriel Belcher 2

Three Studies of Muriel Belcher 3

Wow. I really like the neck and head portraits. It's like 3D Picasso. The one with the pope is interesting too. It has a frantic quality but the popes emotions seem almost muted.

yay! I am glad you like the bacon pics! I was starting to feel very alone

his work is creepy like jacobs ladder..I think i'm drawn to nightmarish images,they haunt me.

heres a bit of weird and useless trivia
in the first batman,where the joker and his gang were destroying all the art in the museum,the painting the joker stops one of his goons from destroying was bacon's..I kinda got a kick of that

^I remember that.
"I kinda like this one, Bob. Leave it alone."
Man, you know your art is twisted when the Joker likes it. Bacon must have been proud.

"Never rub another man's rhubarb."
-Joker

that is so true!

i thought you meant bacon bacon, not this bacon cry but not acctual bacon. just bacon. mr bacon droolio






but still, nice droolio

excellent story mr z! his work made me read in to it and try to figure it out and like you said it make me feel more that most paintings I had ever seen.

I lead me to find more disturbing art like Joel-Peter Witkin,who's work I'd love to post here but would get banned for life if I did...nightmarish imagery .

Bacon's popes are some of his most frightening and my favorite works. I can only imagine your expression when you seen it for the first time.