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francis bacon essay

Francis Bacon was born on October 28 1909 in Dublin Ireland. At the age of 16, he moved to London and also lived for about two years in Berlin and Paris.

When he moved back to London in 1929, he established himself as a furniture designer and interior designer. In that year he began to use oil paint and he started to have an exhibition of a few of his paintings as well as some furniture and rugs in his studio.

His first exhibition took place at the Hanover Gallery in London in 1949. His first solo exhibition outside England was in 1953 at Durlacher Brothers in New York. His first retrospective was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1955.

The title of this picture is: Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953.  The original image that Francis Bacon took inspiration off is called Portrait of Innocent X. Francis Bacon has used oil paintings on a canvas print.  He has made the image distorted to that of the original painting. He has used long brush strokes and bold colours. He has changed the colours of the clothes that the pope is wearing in the original. Throughout the year of this painting he made another 5 in the same style of this.

Head of a Man-Study of Drawing by Van Gogh, this is another oil on canvas painting by Francis bacon he painted this in 1959. He has made the person in the painting look like a clown with the pale white face and the blue and red colours to define the facial features. He has made this picture look like a clown wearing face paints this could be because he has made the dark background represent fear yet the pale colours on the face as a clown represent happiness and humour.

This is a self-portrait of Francis Bacon, which was made in 1973, it is titled self-portrait 1973.  This looks like that he is ill or is suffering from a hangover. It seems this is because he is sat besides a sink with his head in his hand looking down. It could also be that he has got a cut on his hand and he is sat there so the blood goes down the toilet.

You can see that the mirror at the side of the room is not reflecting the image well because his hand in on the front of his head but in the mirror it is at the back of his head and you should be able to see all the back of his head. Also in the mirror the colours of the chair and of his hair are not the same as in the full image.

Lucian Freud essay

Lucian Michael Freud is a British painter but was born in Berlin, Germany. Who was born 8 December 1922. He started to study at the Central School of Art in London in 1938 until 1939, he then went onto the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing 1939 for 3 years up to 1942, in 1942 till 1943 at Goldsmiths' College, London part-time. He then went onto serve as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941 for only 3 months. After being invalied out of the merchant navy he started working as a full-time artist. Freud had a studio in Paddington London for 30 years before moving into one in Holland Park.

After the 1950 he began to paint portraits often nudes, he would often clean his brush after each stroke. His portraits often only consist of the person who is sitting, or sometimes sprawled naked on the floor or on a bed. His models are mostly of people who are in his life, such as: friends, family, fellow painters, lovers and also children.

His first exhibition was organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was held in 1974 at the Hayward Gallery in London. His most successful exhibition was the one at the Tate Gallery in 2002 was a sell-out.

The Lucian Freud Gaz painting is a male portrait of a man with a hat and wearing a red top. It seems like the model he decided to paint was like a farmer or cowboy sort. He has emphasized the models long face, his nose, his lips and his teeth in detail. Lucian has added a peace symbol and a # symbol to the top of the model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Freud

http://painting.about.com/od/famouspainters/p/bio_LucianFreud.htm