Description

FRANCIS BACON 1952 ink and watercolor drawing

Typical for the Francis Bacon style of putting down suffering and pain

The ink and watercolor drawing shows us the behind the painter’s distortion of the protagonist’s face and so we see horror as archetypal emotion overwhelming the “businessman”. This emotion becomes the creative justification for the distortion as artist’s stylistic reaction

This portrait of a ‘businessman’ ink and watercolor is based on Bacon’s study for a ‘Businessman 1’ painting from 1952 – is one of the so called lost/disappeared/torn-up/destroyed works

Bacon is a paradigmatic artist – interested in finding the holistic truth about the universe we all live in, but he is among the minority today, when too many artists adopt a sterile perception of reality – to make it look representative and intriguing for the sake of their popularity and commercial success. They ignore the fact that critical – negative element in our creative perception is necessary to make the artist’s picture of reality structurally sustainable and semantically complete in its openness. Oriented on truth, not on success (a democratic period of Western history he was lucky to live in, provided him with success because of its interest in and ability to tolerate truth), Bacon, amid the gardens of democracy and greenhouses of consumerist prosperity discovered a horrifying seamy side – apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic predatoriness, which we today, in the 21st century, are noticing more and more in our economic and political behavior.

Quote by Francis Bacon : I think if you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Specifications :

Size : 35 x 26 cm (14 x 10.4 inch)

Drawn and painted on heavy structured paper