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Apr 9, 2017 · The most influential works of Bacon include Novum Organum, New Atlantis and The Advancement of Learning. He was also a prominent statesman and jurist who was a Member of Parliament and became Lord Chancellor, the highest position in England’s legal profession. Here are the 10 major accomplishments of Francis Bacon including his contributions ...
Apr 28, 1992 · Francis Bacon produced some of the most iconic images of wounded and traumatized humanity in post-war art. Borrowing inspiration from Surrealism, film, photography, and the Old Masters, he forged a distinctive style that made him one of the most widely recognized exponents of figurative art in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Irish-British
- October 28, 1909
- Dublin, Ireland
- April 28, 1992
- He started out as a furniture designer. Despite never going to art school – or finishing school for that matter – Bacon painted his first major work, Crucifixion (1933) aged just 24.
- He revelled in chaos. Bacon’s Reece Mews studio (since relocated to Dublin) is the manifestation of chaos. By the time he died, his studio floor was feet-deep in thousands of photographs and magazines – a mix of high and low cultural images, historic paintings, scientific drawings and photographs as well as reproductions of his own work – which he described as "compost".
- He loved... and he lost. Bacon felt as though he was followed by death, particularly in his love life. His partner Peter Lacy died of alcoholism in 1962, aged 46, while his subsequent partner, George Dyer, died of an overdose in 1971.
- He was allergic to animals. Bacon was fascinated by animals (over his career he painted monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, dogs, owls, bulls, elephants, rhinos) but he was effectively allergic to most of them.
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Apr 24, 2024 · Many of Bacon’s early paintings are based on images by other artists, which he distorts for his own expressive purposes. Examples of such themes are the screaming nanny from Sergey Eisenstein’s film Potemkin and studies of the human figure in motion by the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
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Member of Parliament – Barrister – Queen’s Counsel – Great Instauration. In 1581 Francis Bacon began his thirty-six years of Parliamentary service as a Member of Parliament, entering the Commons as a member for Cornwall. On 27 June 1582 he was called to the Bar and admitted Utter Barrister at Gray’s Inn.
Francis Bacon (1909–92) was a maverick who rejected the preferred artistic style of abstraction of the era, in favour of a distinctive and disturbing realism. Growing up, Bacon had a difficult and ambivalent relationship with his parents – especially his father, who struggled with his son’s emerging homosexuality.
Francis Bacon, (born Oct. 28, 1909, Dublin, Ire.—died April 28, 1992, Madrid, Spain), Irish-British painter. He lived in Berlin and Paris before settling in London (1929) to begin a career as an interior decorator. With no formal art training, he started painting, drawing, and participating in gallery exhibitions, with little success.
