Francis Bacon, lived a 82 year long life, from 28 October 1909 to 28 April 1992 & was born into Dublin. Bacon is well known for his raw & graphic imagery he shows in nearly all his self made images. Most ways of which people describe or portray Bacon's work is as if he always paints them within cages, or in a box like shape & also with a totally different background from what he was drawing from.. Or so it seemed.
Also many peoples opinions leaned toward the fact that he had a cruel mind for his characters in his paintings, or images, as though they were all a victim of something terrible. All his paintings were in some way or another emotional, which is hard to put into anything really, especially from someone who comes from designing & decorating interiors and furniture & rugs.
''Bacon visited Paris in 1935, purchasing there a second-hand book on 'Diseases of the Mouth' containing high quality hand-coloured plates of both open mouths and oral interiors, which haunted and obsessed him for the remainder of his life''
The above played a great importance in Bacon's life, because if it wasn't for that, I more than likely wouldn't be writing this.
Even though Bacon rumored never really went to school, his works shown a lot more potential then those who had O levels and diplomas. Bacon started by copy other artist but using different media such as water painting. Then many years passed for him, and worked his way through a lot of media which he named as 'meaningful experiments'. Using a lot of oils in the more later life of his, is when his artwork really peaked in my opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)
http://www.francis-bacon.com/
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/francisbacon
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JBISnNM1gr4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=francis+bacon&source=bl&ots=FqRZHFA5OU&sig=8Blwp28s6lhBn7KdyxopQdlPE4I&hl=en&ei=miB0Ta-RLs6XhQePo52GBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBDg8#v=onepage&q&f=false
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