Francis Bacon - The Portraits :: Visual Arts Paintings Art

Francis Bacon - The PortraitsFrancis Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland to English parents. When F.Bacon grow up and was more independent he then travelled to Berlinwere he fagged most of his time there. He then moved onto Paris, before go to London and starting out as an interior designer. Baconnever tended to(p) art school he only when began his work in watercolours round 1926 27. An exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso inspired himto make his first drawings and house paintings. The functioning of thebiomorphic figures in Picassos work is apparent in Bacons first major(ip)painting of his mature period Three Studies for Figures at the baseof a Crucifixion 1944. This painting is also representative of some ofBacons methods and subjects. The Portraits influenced me because in my project Journeys I amlooking at car crashes and what things lead to car crashes e.g. Drinkdriving. I wanted to command how drink affects the brain and how the brainreacts to the effects. As Bacon in thi s particular painting of this,distorted image of a introduce, I thought this would be a great image touse in my project. Using this image would financial aid me to see what people,who drink drive, see while they are driving. So using this distortedimage it showed me how incontrollable people are when drink driving.The image provides absolute movement due to the harsh sweeps of paint.In the painting I notice how Bacon utilise basic elements to give adistinctive image. He has used a thick paint brush and he probablyonly did about 15 brush strokes. The composition of the study islife-like and has made sealed that he includes every detail of the face.By having the face on an cant over and the thick brush strokes it shows methat this person maybe scared or has salutary seen some object that isdistracting him, also it looks like he moved his face with some rapid durability. Each of the colours contrasts well and gives a facsimileof a face. The shapes used in the composition of t he painting are broadly speaking round or even sphere shape. Bacon has used a tummy of texture inthe paint to show the different elements, e.g. the thick sporty brushstroke represents the cheekbone and the dark stroke for under thechin.The process of the painting that Bacon has gone through were sketchingout the outline of the face and the seventh cranial nerve features then I imagine hetook the brush and with some force started to map out the face while