Francis Bacon. WARNING The following presentation continues vulgar language, scenes of horror and...

Francis Bacon

WARNING

The following presentation continues vulgar

language, scenes of horror and gratuitous

nudity (maybe). Viewer discretion is

advised.

“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter—perfect in its bud as in its bloom—with no

reason to explain its presence—no mission to fulfill—a joy to the artist”.

James McNeill Whistler

Self Portrait (1932)

“In art, all who have done something other than their

predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is

they alone who are masters”.

Paul Gaugin

Blood on the Floor (1986)

Francis Bacon & his mother Winifred (1914)

Study from the Human Body (1949)

Study for Human Body (1991)

Detail from Poussin’s The Massacre of the Innocents (1630-31)

Crucifixion (1933)

Figures in a Garden (1936)

Figure Getting Out of Car (1943)

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)

Alecto Megaera Tisiphone

Picasso’s The Spanish Crucifixion (1930-34)

Painting (1946)

Study after Velazquez'sPortrait of Pope Innocent X

(1953)

Study from Innocent X (1962)Study from Innocent X (1964)

Study from Innocent X (1962)

Velazquez’s Pope Innocent X (1650)

Oedipus after the Sphinx, after Ingres (1983)

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”. Oscar Wilde

“Old age is horrible and incurable”. Michel Leiris

“I know I’m just dead. I know I just become a skeleton. I just go back to the earth…We become once again the compost of the earth. That’s all there is. There’s nothing else to life”. Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1983)

"I myself and the life I've lived happen to be more profoundly curious than my work. Then

sometimes, when I think about it, I'd prefer everything about my life

to blow up after I die and disappear".

Francis Bacon