Bacon, Francis - Expressionismo
Quarta-feira, Abril 25, 2007
Figures in a Garden, circa 1936
Oil on canvas
740 x 940 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Figure in a Landscape, 1945
Oil on canvas
1448 x 1283 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Figure Study I, 1945/46
Oil on canvas
123.00 x 105.50 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Untitled, 1945-46
Oil on canvas
47.75 x 40.75 in.
Painting, 1946
Oil on canvas
198.1 x 132.1 cm (78 x 52 in)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Head VI, 1949
Oil on canvas
93.2 x 76.5 cm (36 5/8 x 30 1/8 in)
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1951
Oil on canvas
1983 x 1371 mm
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Study for Crouching Nude, 1952
Oil and sand on canvas
198.1 x 137.2 cm (78 x 54 in)
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Study of a Dog, 1952
Oil on canvas
1981 x 1372 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953
Oil on canvas
153 x 118.1 cm (60 1/4 x 46 1/2 in)
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Man with Dog, 1953
Oil on canvas
152.1 x 116.8 cm (59 7/8 x 46 in)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake), 1955
Oil on canvas
610 x 508 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Study for Chimpanzee, 1957
Oil and pastel on canvas
152.4 x 117 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV, 1957
Oil on canvas
1524 x 1168 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Reclining Man with Sculpture, 1960-1961
Oil on Canvas
142 cm x 165 cm
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Reclining Woman, 1961
Oil on canvas
1988 x 1416 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Seated Figure, 1961
Oil on canvas
1651 x 1422 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Crucifixion - 1
Crucifixion - 2
Crucifixion - 3
Three Studies for a Crucifixion, 1962
Oil and sand on canvas
Three panels, each 198.1 x 144.8 cm (78 x 57 in
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Study for Self Portrait, 1963
Oil on canvas
165.2 x 142.6 cm
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Man and Child, 1963
Oil on canvas
198 x 147 cm
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Self-portrait, 1964
Oil on canvas
Marlborough Art Gallery, London
Portrait of Henrietta Moraes on a Blue Couch, 1965
Oil on canvas
198 x 147 cm
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966
Oil on canvas
813 x 686 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Portrait of George Dyer in a Mirror, 1968
Oil on canvas
198 x 147 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Self-Portrait, 1971
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in)
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Lying Figure in Mirror, c. 1971
Oil on canvas
198.5 x 147.5 cm
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
August 1972, 1
August 1972, 2
August 1972, 3
Triptych - August 1972, 1972
Oil on canvas
each: 1981 x 1473 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Study for the Human Body: Man turning on the light, 1974
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2030 x 1520 mm
Royal College of Art
Three Figures and Portrait, 1975
Oil and pastel on canvas
1981 x 1473 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Study for self-portrait, 1976
Oil and pastel on canvas
198.0 x 147.5 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Oedipus and the Sphinx After Ingres, 1983
Oil on canvas
198 x 147,5 cm
Figure in Movement, 1985
Oil on canvas
1980 x 1475 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Triptych 1944 - 1
Triptych 1944 - 2
Triptych 1944 - 3
Second Version of Triptych 1944, 1988
Oil on canvas
Three panels, each 198.1 x 147.3 cm (78 x 58 in)
Collection of the artist
Study for a Portrait March 1991, 1991
Oil and pastel on canvas
198.00 x 147.50 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
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No "Triptych - August 1972, 1972", cada uma das três figuras masculinas está isolada numa sala, com as suas formas retorcidas e viscerais salientadas pelo preto da entrada ao fundo. Violentamente distorcidos e isolados, eles falam de horror, repulsa e solidão, temas que Bacon tratou durante toda a sua carreira. Nesta obra, Bacon apresenta o formato tradicional do retrato para produzir imagens simultaneamente brutais e belas. Os seus quadros representando jaulas, salas vazias e imagens deformadas de cães e de homens baseiam-se frequentemente em imagens reais - quadros dos mestres clássicos, planos de filmes ou fotografias de jornais - que ocupavam o chão e as paredes do seu esúdio. Pintor autoditacta, Bacon desafia as categorizações, apesar das suas fantadsias-pesadelo apresentarem algumas semelhanças com a obra dos expressionistas. É considerado como um dos mais importantes artistas britânicos do pós-guerra, com a sua visão única e chocante da forma humana. Francis Bacon nasceu em Dublin (IRL) em 1909 e morreu em Madrid (ESP) em 1992.
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Francis Bacon was born October 28, 1909, in Dublin. At the age of 16, he moved to London and subsequently lived for about two years in Berlin and Paris. Although Bacon never attended art school, he began to draw and work in watercolor about 1926–27. Pablo Picasso’s work decisively influenced his painting until the mid-1940s. Upon his return to London in 1929, he established himself as a furniture designer and interior designer. He began to use oils in the fall of that year and exhibited a few paintings as well as furniture and rugs in his studio. His work was included in a group exhibition in London at the Mayor Gallery in 1933. In 1934, the artist organized his own first solo show at Sunderland House, London, which he called Transition Gallery for the occasion. He participated in a group show at Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, in 1937. Bacon painted relatively little after his solo show and in the 1930s and early 1940s destroyed many of his works. He began to paint intensively again in 1944. His first major solo show took place at the Hanover Gallery, London, in 1949. From the mid-1940s to the 1950s, Bacon’s work reflected the influence of Surrealism [more]. In the 1950s, Bacon drew on such sources as Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1649–50), Vincent van Gogh’s The Painter on the Road to Tarascon (1888), and Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs. His first solo exhibition outside England was held in 1953 at Durlacher Brothers, New York. In 1950–51 and 1952, the artist traveled to South Africa. He visited Italy in 1954 when his work was featured in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His first retrospective was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1955. Bacon was given a solo show at the São Paulo Bienal in 1959. In 1962, the Tate Gallery, London, organized a Bacon retrospective, a modified version of which traveled to Mannheim, Turin, Zurich, and Amsterdam. Other important exhibitions of his work were held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1963 and the Grand Palais in Paris in 1971; paintings from 1968 to 1974 were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1975. Retrospectives of his work were held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1989–90 and at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1996. The artist died April 28, 1992, in Madrid.
Guggenheim Collection - Bacon Biography
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