Influences on Francis Bacon (painter)
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The painter Francis Bacon was largely self-taught as an artist. As well as visual artists Bacon drew inspiration from the poems of T. S. Eliot,[1] Pound and Yeats; the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare; Proust and the Joyce of Ulysses.
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[edit] Influences
- Pablo Picasso, in particular the biomorphic figures in Picasso's paintings of bathers at Dinard of 1927-32.[2]
- Diego Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X (1649–50). "that Velázquez is one of the great paintings of the world, of course - well, I was very obsessed with that Velázquez and, of course, I made a great mistake…". Bacon painted several versions, of which Figure with Meat (1954) is an atypically Grand Guignol example. Bacon never actually saw the original Velázquez.[3]
- Vincent van Gogh, van Gogh’s The Painter on the Road to Tarascon (July 1888).[4]
- Rembrandt Self-portrait (Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence)[5]
- Chaim Soutine Céret period (1919-1923), Carcass of Beef (1926) (Minneapolis)[6]
- John Constable - the full size oil-sketch for The Leaping Horse at the V&A.
- Titian Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto (c.1551-1562)
- Michelangelo's drawings
- Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River (1909-16)[7]
- Pharonic Egyptian sculpture of the Eighteenth dynasty, from the rule of Amenophis III and Amenophis IV especially.
- Masaccio Trinity c.1424-1428 Santa Maria Novella—Bacon greatly admired Masaccio and similarities between the composition of Trinity and Painting (1946) have been noted by critics.
- Marcel Duchamp
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Oedipus and the Sphinx (1826-1827), Le Bain Turc (1859-1863)
- Edgar Degas After the Bath, Woman drying herself (1888-1892), Beach Scene (1868-1877)—Both in the collection of the National Gallery, London
- Walter Sickert Granby Street (1912-1913)
- Henri Michaux Untitled (1962)
- Pierre Bonnard
- Georges-Pierre Seurat
- Cimabue "You know the great Cimabue Crucifixion? I always think of that as an image - as a worm crawling down the cross."[8]
- Alberto Giacometti's drawings[9]
- Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece[10]
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Étienne-Jules Marey
- Eadweard Muybridge[11] "My principal source of visual information is Muybridge, the 19th-century photographer who photographed human and animal movement. His work is unbelievably precise. He created a visual dictionary of movement, a living dictionary."
- Nadar
- John Deakin. Regular at the Colony Room Club and noted photographer who took portraits of Bacons friends on which many of his 1960's paintings were based.[12]
- Luis Buñuel. "I've been very influenced by the films of Buñuel, especially Un chien andalou because I think that Buñuel had a remarkable precision of imagery. I can't say how they have directly effected me but they certainly have affected my whole attitude to visual things - in the acuteness of the visual image which you've got to make."
- Sergei Eisenstein. Strike (Стачка, 1925) and The Battleship Potemkin (Броненосец „Потёмкин“, 1925), especially the famous Odessa Steps scene.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Zweite, Armin (ed) (2006). The Violence of the Real. London: Thames and Hudson. 93 ISBN 0-5000-9335-0
- ^ Sylvester, David (2000). Looking back at Francis Bacon. London: Thames and Hudson. 19. ISBN 0-5000-1994-0
- ^ Schmied, Wieland. Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict. Munich: Prestel, 1996. 17. ISBN 3-7913-1664-8
- ^ [1]Francis Bacon Estate, retrieved June 28, 2009
- ^ "Francis Bacon Self-Portrait Study Leads Christie's NY Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale". Art Knowledge News, November 2008. Retrieved on 1 July, 2009
- ^ Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. 18. ISBN 0-8264-7930-8
- ^ David Sylvester has convincingly argued in his essay Bacon and Matisse (1996) [revised as Bacon IV in About Modern Art] for Matisse's pervasive influence on Bacon's painting.
- ^ Richardson, John. "Tragedian". New York Review of Books, Volume 4, Number 4. 25 March, 1965. Retrieved on 1 July, 2009.
- ^ Lord, James. Giacometti . Farrar Straus, 1997. 452. ISBN 0-3745-2525-0
- ^ Sylvester, David (1987). The Brutality of Fact: Interviews With Francis Bacon. London: Thames and Hudson. 46. ISBN 0-5002-7475-4
- ^ Prodger, Phillip. Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement. Oxford University Press, 2003. 263. ISBN 0-1951-4964-5
- ^ Peppiatt, Michael (1996). Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 0-297-81616-0
