BACON

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (19091992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulse s into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions.Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Baco n took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe and wail with intens e emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque, portraits are as much r eflection...[Llegir més]