Second Version of Triptych 1944
oil on canvas
198.1 x 147.3 cm (each)
1988
Second Version of Triptych 1944
oil on canvas
198.1 x 147.3 cm
1988
Second Version of Triptych 1944
oil on canvas
198.1 x 147.3 cm
1988
Second Version of Triptych 1944
oil on canvas
198.1 x 147.3 cm
1988
Francis Bacon is internationally acknowledged as among the most powerful painters of the twentieth century. His vision of the world was unflinching and entirely individual, encompassing images of sensuality and brutality, both immediate and timeless. When he first emerged to public recognition, in the aftermath of the Second World War, his paintings were greeted with horror. Shock has since been joined by a wide appreciation of Bacon’s ability to expose humanity’s frailties and drives.
Bacon sought to express what it was to live in a world without God or afterlife. By setting sensual abandon and physical compulsion against hopelessness and irrationality, he showed the human as simply another animal. As a response to the challenge that photography posed for painting, he developed a unique realism which could convey more about the state of existence than photography’s representation of the perceived world. In an era dominated by abstract art, he amassed and drew upon a vast array of visual imagery, including art of the past, photography and film. [Tate Britain]
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