Francis Bacon
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
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Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British painter famous for his bold, unsettling figurative works created between the early 20th century and 1992. His distinctive style—featuring distorted human forms and dramatic use of color—made him one of the most influential and recognizable artists of the modern era.
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- 22 January 1561
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- 9 April 1626
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- 1568
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1. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. His works established and popularized deductive methodologies for scientific inquiry <a h
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Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
He said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers in the region of 590 extant paintings along with many others he destroyed, typically focused on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on single motifs; including the 1930s Picasso-influenced bio-morphs and Furies, the 1940s male heads isolated in rooms or geometric structures, the 1950s "screaming popes", the mid-to-late-1950s animals and lone figures, the early-1960s crucifixions, the mid-to-late-1960s portraits of friends, the 1970s self-portraits, and the cooler, more technical 1980s paintings.
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1909 births1992 deaths20th-century British male artists20th-century British textile artists20th-century Irish male artists20th-century Irish paintersAcademics of the Royal College of ArtAnglo-Irish artistsArtists from County KildareArtists from Dublin (city)British people of Australian descentCivil Defence Service personnel