Francis Bacon - Distortion

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) - a revolutionary artist, a British painter known for his very bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery of human figures. After visiting a Picasso exhibition in Berlin, Francis Bacon used his own surrealistic abstract within many of his paintings. The inspiration from Picasso can be seen mroe formally within many of his works, however, 'the Crucifixion' (1933) for example brings out a very dark and dangerous visual. The harsh pposition between light and dark portrays a sinister feel to the art.