Figurative Artist Research: Francis Bacon

 It is obvious that painter Francis Bacon’s work carries a very dark theme, with most of his figurative art being very disfigured and distorted. The piece above shows disfigurement with the twisted nasal bone and parietal bone protruding from the skin, in result of the bones being twisted and rearranged the skin starts to sag in certain places and used a very dark shade to show the eye sockets sallow into the skull. The painter purposefully uses pinks and purples to show the bad condition of the skin as if seeing underneath it. To make this piece of art as effective as possible the painter must have had a very strong understanding of how the head anatomy worked and from this knowledge could create a twisted piece that still held some realistic sense of a figure. The piece below I feel was done using as the different colours used reacted and interrupted with each other giving a spectral effect making the figure look as if he is disintegrating from the canvas.