Showing posts with label Bacon - Francis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bacon - Francis. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 June 2015

Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992)

Francis Bacon, Two Figures, 1953
"Men Wrestling," lower half of a plate from Eadweard Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion (first published1887) from Francis Bacon’s studio; used as reference for Two Figures
Detail of page from Eadweard Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion, from Francis Bacon’s studio

Carlos Freire, Francis Bacon in his Studio I, 1977

Sunday, 31 May 2015

Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992)

Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X,  1953
Diego Velazquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1650

Film still of the screaming nurse from Battleship Potemkin (1925) directed by Sergei Eisenstein; image used by Bacon as ‘catalyst’ for face of ‘Screaming Pope’.

Friday, 29 May 2015

Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992)

Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944