Francis Bacon - The Portraits :: Visual Arts Paintings Art

Francis Bacon - The PortraitsFrancis Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland to English pargonnts. When F.Bacon grow up and was more independent he then travelled to Berlinwere he spent most of his time there. He then moved onto Paris, beforereturning to London and starting out as an interior designer. Baconnever tended to(p) art school he totally began his work in watercoloursabout 1926 27. An exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso inspired himto make his first drawings and depictions. The influence of thebiomorphic figures in Picassos work is apparent in Bacons first majorpainting 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 motorcar crashes and what things lead to car crashes e.g. Drinkdriving. I wanted to see how drink affects the brain and how the brainreacts to the effects. As Bacon in this particu lar painting of this,distorted image of a face, I thought this would be a great image touse in my project. Using this image would help 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 strong movement due to the harsh sweeps of paint.In the painting I noticed how Bacon used basic elements to give adistinctive image. He has used a deep-chested paint wash and he probablyonly did about 15 brush strokes. The composition of the study islife-like and has made sure that he includes every detail of the face.By having the face on an angle and the thick brush strokes it shows methat this person maybe scared or has just seen some object that isdistracting him, also it looks like he moved his face with some rapidforce. Each of the colours contrasts well and gives a representationof a face. The shapes used in the composition of the painting aremostly round or eventid e sphere shape. Bacon has used a lot of texture inthe paint to show the different elements, e.g. the thick white brushstroke represents the cheekbone and the benighted stroke for under thechin.The process of the painting that Bacon has gone through were sketchingout the outline of the face and the facial features then I imagine hetook the brush and with some force started to map out the face while