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Francis Bacon Biography |
Francis Bacon (October 28, 1909 - April 28, 1992) was a British expressionist artist and painter.
Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland to English parents. The family moved back and forth between Dublin and London several times while he was growing up. He was a sickly child, and his father attempted to "toughen him up" by having his son horsewhipped. He was expelled from his family in 1925 when his homosexuality was discovered.
Bacon then spent a few months in Berlin, then a year and a half in Paris, before returning to London. An exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso inspired him to make his first drawings and paintings.
Bacon was largely self-taught as an artist. His influences included Pablo Picasso, Diego Velazquez and the Surrealist movement. He once said that his most important surrealist influence was not a fellow painter but rather the films of Luis Buñuel. He later became disdainful of his own early work, and destroyed the majority of his work from before 1944. |
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