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Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat

Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat

Bacon, Francis
Pedrosa, Adriano
Cosendey, Laura

Hardcover

General ArtIndividual ArtistsPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $55.00

ISBN10: 6557770519
ISBN13: 9786557770511
Publisher: Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubrian
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 282
Weight: 3.35
Height: 1.30 Width: 8.40 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

Using the painter's queer identity as a framework to understand his visceral approach to figuration

Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, best known for his distinctive way of portraying human figures. Especially in his male portraits and nudes, the physicality of the body--skin, flesh, muscles--is translated by the artist into thick, oily textures, giving the figures almost abstract shapes. Flashes of teeth, torsos and rib cages underscore Bacon's visceral philosophy regarding the human form. As the artist famously said: We are meat, we are potential carcasses. If I go into a butcher's shop I always think it is surprising that I wasn't there instead of the animal.

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