Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was born in Dublin on October 28, 1909, the second of five children to Edwad and Winfrey Bacon. The Bacon family lived there until 1914, when Edward took up work in the War Office in London, England. After 1918, the family moved back and forth from London to Dublin. During this period of frequent travel, Francis suffered from asthma and other recurrent ailments and rarely went to school, being taught by private tutors. In 1925, Edward, angered by …

…the theme emerged once in 1954 in Figure with Meat, and twice in 1962. Through his reactions of the Pope, the crucifixion and the scream, Francis Bacon produced a profound, reactionary body of work. His use of dark imagery and abstracted figures gave his compositions a tension that unified his pieces. He expanded upon ideas laid down by the masters before him, and ushered them into the twentieth century, breaking the boundaries of the past.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**