The dualist. (painting, Francis Bacon, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany)

From: Art in America | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

The depiction of violence figures heavily in Francis Bacon's paintings. The distorted images of pain and mutilation can be seen as both stylized and emotionally charged. Bacon had a disdain for both abstraction and illustration, but both of these techniques are at work in his paintings.

Francis Bacon offers a strange feast for the eye. Abundant painterly pleasures were to be had at the sumptuous retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (the show, which comes four years after the artist's death, is now at its second venue, the Haus der Kunst, Munich), but such pleasures are ...

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