Francis Bacon often uses grotesque images or morbid tasks as his subject matter, creating portraits that reflect only his inner fantasies and pain. The images he depicts are distorted, deformed and blurred in a way that makes his work known for its brutal sharpness, intense violence, and nightmarish images. In his creative style, he used to use the human figure as the basis for his pictorial designs and to give the objects and scenes of the visible world in his paintings emotional rich. His work is subject to his personal experiences and extreme inner pain, a disillusioned, bestial horror of emotion that reflects the spiritual crisis of life at the time. As a modernist painter, he strives to tap into everyday human life's hard-to-find struggles. He sensitively captured these painful states and tried to visualise these emotions. Bacon often wanted to use these exaggerated and brutal paintings to show his inner 'loneliness' in an undisguised way.

 

Francis Bacon has a profound effect of my researches, I started to appreciate his painting style and major techniques, including procedure and the use of colors, especially in his portraits. I went to visit his art exhibition “Man and Beast ”earlier this year in Royal Academy of Arts, what have impressed me was his integration of the philosophy and twisty images. The fragment of human face and twisty expression could be seen as the reflection of the alienation in human life, Bacon used powerful and brutal painting to make emotion visualized. 

 

As for Bacon's painting technique, his work Triptich: Three Studies For Self-portrait, his brush strokes https://francis-bacon.com/life/biography/1970s/triptych-three-studies-self-portrait-76-07 fascinated me, and the large, jagged brushstrokes made the whole painting much more readable. It's hard for the audience to take their eyes off him. Also, he used the frenetic brushstrokes contrasting with the more sedately executed background areas, which are added and adapted as the image as a whole progresses (Ades and Forge, 1985). The working process seems not fast and furious, but his work with rapid completion has always been the praised.

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Reference：

 

Ades, D. and Forge, A.(1985). Francis Bacon. London: Thames and Hudson. P232

Arya, R. (2017). ‘Maria Lassnig’and ‘Francis Bacon’: Invisible Rooms at Tate Liverpool. Visual Culture in Britain, 18(1), 115-117.

Bacon, F. Triptich: Three Studies For Self-portrait（1976）. [Oil on Canvas].

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