Bacon

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Luigi Ficacci

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Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions.

Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe with intense emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque, portraits are as much reflections on the trials and the traumas of the human condition as they are character studies. These haunting forms were also among the first in art history to depict overtly homosexual themes.

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Weight 572.954 g
Dimensions 21.0058 x 26.0096 cm
Publisher name TASCHEN
Publication date 30 September 2015
Number of pages 96
Format Hardback
Dimensions 21.0058 x 26.0096 cm
Weight 572.954 g