"English
painter of Irish birth. Francis Bacon came to London in
1925 and although he received no formal art training,
he created a sensation in 1945 when he exhibited his Three
Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (London,
Tate Gallery) at the Lefevre Gallery in London. His work
was Expressionist in style, and his distorted human forms
were unsettling.
He developed his personal style and gloomy subject matter
during the 1950s, when he achieved an international reputation.
Aside from his unpleasant images of corrupt and disgusting
humanity, Bacon deliberately subverted artistic conventions
by using the triptych format of Renaissance altarpieces
to show the evils of man, rather than the virtues of Christ.
In Pope Innocent X he reworked a famous portrait by Velazquez
into a screaming mask of angst." - From "The Bulfinch
Guide to Art History"
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