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 😊
Re: It's Bacon!!
Originally posted by BadKitty
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!
i thought you meant bacon bacon, not this bacon cry but not acctual bacon. just bacon. mr bacon droolio
but still, nice droolio
I'll give you the long version. Ooo-er!
It was only once I was older and had left the city I discovered that Aberdeen art gallery was considered something of a gem. Considering the size of the city and its location I lucked out big time. (Even now when I go back home to visit the fam' I get a thrill every time I walk in the door.) It was my home-from-home growing up. Mostly captivated by the romantics as a young teen I thought Pre-Raphaelite was the pinnacle of art.
And then one day they changed the paintings round and brought some stock up from the store-room - and walking up the stairs to the upper floor I caught sight of one of Bacons Popes. It's no exaggeration to say that it completely changed everything I thought and felt about art. It was the very first thing I'd ever seen that I didn't consciously understand - I couldn't explain it, but knew how it made me feel.
It was the beginning of a long love affair with non-representational art that’s still capable of rendering me dumb with joy to this day. I owe Francis a huge debt.
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. 🙂