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Painting
Title: Painting 1946
Oil on canvas - 198cm x 132cm
Francis Bacon
Famous Irish born English artist - 20th Century
Painter
About the Study for Painting of 1946
Painting is a large work that has come to
be recognized as one of Francis Bacon's masterpieces.
Flesh is a major part of the work, which went
on to become a central theme throughout the
rest of his career. Even his portraits took
on the appearence of flesh that could just
as easily be hanging in a butcher shop.
In an interview, Francis Bacon said the following
about his 1946 painting "It came to
me as an accident. I was attempting to make
a bird alighting on a field. And it may have
been bound up in some way with the three forms
that had gone before, but suddenly the line
that I had drawn suggested something totally
different and out of this suggestion arose
this picture. I had no intention to do this
picture; I never thought of it in that way.
It was like one continuous accident mounting
on top of another." |
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