Who is Francis Bacon?

1. Intro: Hi, I'm sorry. In this class I'm going to walk you through Francis Bacon's intense career. And life is one of my favorites, and I just thought we had talked about them. I'm going to do it in three videos. First two is about history cap, about his early and later life. Their video is owners video, a timeline of his words. You can buy. 2. Early Life and style: Welcome back guys to my second class in the same month was this variety show we are going to talk about favorite artists ever Francis Bacon. He is considered one of the best doors of the post-war era, a time beard that is closest to my heart. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and October 1909, Francis Bacon was the second of five children of Christina fed and Edward bacon, Eris, horse trainer and a former army officer. He had asthma, which kept him from going to school. So homeschool with the outbreak of war in 1914, In his father took the family to London and joined the Ministry of War. And going between London and Ireland in the post-war years. Although he had four siblings, bacon had a close relationship with his nanny, Jesse Lightfoot, who would later come to live with him for many years in London, his family relations were bad and they became worse. Overtime being gay was met with a lot of anger and discipline to the point of getting thrown out basically between 19261927, presumably for trying his mother's clothes when he was 17 ahead. Weekly allowance of three yours from his mom, so support and they use that time to travel from Berlin, describe the spirit as his emotional wakening and barriers for he was further interested in arthro through going through a lot of our galleries, then find a setting in London in 1928, where he began a short career as an interior decorator. Whenever his vision or destroyed the master encouraged him to work with painting and became his little mentor. His earlier work was very similar to the castle and the surrealists of the 1933. He exhibited crucifixion, a black and white composition. It was a big head. We can see it in his a drive that signature style of Bain and AGI that would continue. It was bridges right away, but Sir Michael Sadler and it was published in Harvard reads book are now he was full of home and did his first solo exhibition. I didn't get any attention. Also, his work was rejected from the International Surrealists expedition that was organized by Herbert read for not being surrealist enough. That was a blow to the God. He actually destroyed most of his work from that time where we have from him before 1943 was like a couple of main thing. Do this as an, a Bacon was unable to join the Army during World War II, and he worked as a member of the air raid precaution sector, which involved non-monetary and rescue for a while only to be discharged because he was too l from the dust. But if he's like his buddy was given up and just please let me back and let me paint again. That was actually his destiny after the word, he did his three studies of figures at the base of the crucifixion, that was in 1944, which is considered the true beginning of his work. There were a big hit of bacon, the spotlight again, belonging next the snapping mouse that tortured bodies express again Bain and agony but with a little scary and hard twist on it to show suffering, which is a major characteristic of bacon, maybe a common theory of the aftermath of the war. Another sign of major characteristic also was bacon modelling the figures after the photos of animals in motion, showing early interest in the movement of the body, which he will do a lot later, like a lot later. A good source for him was Edward Muybridge, photographs and series like animal locomotion, animals in motion and the human figure in motion. Next, we can deal with the later portion of his life. I went outside. 3. Later Life and his mature work: Morecambe, you probably don't need that. It would go, we finish off talking about resources or figures at the base of crucifixion showing two characteristics, the heart, ESC style and early interest and movement and motion. This work open a lot of opportunities for him. Border one was with the Hebb of Graham Sutherland towards a close friend and his recommendation music. Will Bacon's contract with a directive handover gallery, where he did a solo exhibition in 1949. There he painted a series of untitled heads and it gave us the famous screaming Pope says inspired by Diego Velazquez, portrait of Pope Innocent the tenth, that was done in 1650, which he actually never seen the original in real life. He turned the original work into this horn, painting, the store in the actual portrait using dark colors and roof brushwork draw flies to give a closed space perspective to induce an object plus a phobic tone of other elements that would continue throughout his work, RAM Southern Jerusalem to regime Freud, a big name of mine also, we saw that from Bacon himself, he often been close friends like Lucian Freud and Isabella row thorns. Bacon's three studies of Lucian Freud broke the record for the most expensive work over sold at auction in 2013. It was purchased for a final price of 142.4 million at Christie's in New York. It's entropic, a three-part painting that we'd see a lot in his later years old. By that time, Bacon became central to this soul club, the county wound club. And so roved drink a glove that attracted elite artists and a post-war you're being Expressionism era was on the rise after a successful expedition in Hanover gallery. It was followed by another expression and New York Mark and his international reviewed where we saw men in suits and the usual framework, emotional and psychological intensity, horror elements, distorted figures of brushwork and dark palette. Then back again in another guy in 1957, The Vanguard inspiration all the way through. I had to have an exhibition of the hand of her gallery in 191958. I simply couldn't think of what I was going to do it but think of anything to do. And I Saturdays over, I'll make the whole exhibition about Vanguard for the road of terrorist. I don't think, I think this is one of the better ones, are the best or the series don't do the whole series worked very well. And English is the best of this by it's messy credit full of drunk people opening and being things obviously painted at very short notice, it's a very important expedition for the artists because it marked shift and stifle mostly monochromatic work to a very intense color palette. If you said obviously being good at very short notice there were wet oil paintings. Nothing is worse than on wet oil painting. Wait, let me rephrase. Nothing is worse than oil paintings that gets mirrored back. Very crowded gallery view will be walking off with a bacon ballot. On the next year, he changed his ear to Marlboro find art who bade off his growing gambling debts to give his expeditions and ensured that he destroyed fewer canvases or heavy thing. We didn't talk about his personal life at this period. Well, he was an intense and doors real issue with George daughter whom he met in late 1963 and was subject to many of his paintings that chowed much intensity as Bacon's work. But when you store to know about what kind of troubled relationship was he can't help but see you differently, the same intensity but with a rough affection, which will bring us to our last characteristic eroticism that was there all along but manifested in his mature work. If you are curious and want to know more about bacon and dire time together was the liquid N is the default study for a portrait of Francis Bacon and movie done in 1998, certain day Jacobian Daniel Craig and tell the US winter spoiler warning. Basically Dyer was an alcoholic and suffered from depression. The unfortunately committed suicide on the night before Bacon's large retrospective at the grand palace in Paris in 19171. The next couple of years, bacon will do a lot of pain things tribute to die while mastering triptychs, ambles triptych in memory of George dire, 19711972. And another one is 19731974. Old married. What happened in the mid 70s? Humid don Edwards who became his foreign until his death while on holiday in Madrid, Spain in April 1992, at the age of 80. To his work was seen as a reflection of the anxiety that comes with the modern world. In a time when Modern Art was dominated by abstraction, Bacon was just a new level. His work was psychologically intense. Her as pain, things with distorted figures that were modeled out of moving animals mix that was eroticism and eerie prospective, usually in three points, triptychs and done in roof, brushwork and intense colors. Let's Francis Bacon. Next video is a timeline of his work to see all the characteristics that we've talked about shaping to his mature style. I hope you liked this class. Thank you for watching. See you in next class. Bye bye.