Entries (RSS) Francis Bacon
|
20th November 2008 | Other items by Nkateko |
|
Francis Bacon is widely regarded as Britain’s greatest modern painter. Drawing on low-art sources, including photographs torn from magazines and imagery from films. Coupled with a keen awareness of the rich historical traditional of painting stretching back to the renaissance. Bacon developed a way of portraying the human body that was unique . His mastery of the medium of paint was recognised early. By 1946 the critic Kenneth Clark felt able to state simply: “Francis Bacon has genius”. Now, towards the end of the first decades of the new millennium, it is time to reassess the achievement of the unique figure, whose style was so personal and distinctive that his influence lies more in his commitment to art itself than in any stylistic legacy. |
|
You may also be interested in: Leave a comment: |
