{"id":20532,"date":"2020-01-29T19:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icon-vrai.loc\/?p=20532"},"modified":"2020-10-21T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:06:07","slug":"francis-bacon-three-studies-for-a-crucifixion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/en\/francis-bacon-three-studies-for-a-crucifixion\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Bacon: Three Studies For A Crucifixion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Centre Pompidou in Paris is dedicated an exhibition to Francis Bacon after the one done by the Grand Palais in 1971 &#8211; let\u2019s have a look back at an important figurative painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An Inspired Painter&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1944 was the most devastating year of the Second World War. That is the very year that Francis Bacon would paint a frightening triptych populated with anthropomorphised creatures twisting with anxiety. The artist had destroyed most of the pieces made before 1945 &#8211; this triptych is then an exceptional work. A work that sets the base for the iconic paintings of an artist that is out of the ordinary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Titled \u201cThree Studies At The Base Of A Crucifixion\u201d (1944) sketches the masterpieces to come..For Bacon was first and foremost a chronicler of the ruthless human condition. What do we see on this triptych? Monstrous figures, quasi-human bodies that seem closer to being meat carcasses. Why so? As Francis Bacon says, \u201cwe are all meat, we are all potential carcasses.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"830\" src=\"http:\/\/icon-vrai.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Bacon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Bacon-1.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Bacon-1-600x656.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Francis-Bacon-1-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Crucifixion<\/strong>, <strong>A Human Subject&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Bacon, the religious motif is an inexhaustible metaphor: in 1962, he completed his piece and \u201cThree Studies For A Crucifixion\u201d became a triptych in perfect echo with the preferred format of great religious works. To him, crucifixion is \u201ca magnificent frame on which you can hang all types of sensations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three panels are independent &#8211; the scenes do not follow a story, they are only bound by their colours. An intense orange-red, simple and uniform. This work, Francis Bacon would produce a second version in 1988 &#8211; kept at the Tate Modern.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An Unmissable Painting<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat I enjoy doing the most are the triptychs and I think its may have something to do with wanting to shoot film &#8211; a desire I have sometimes fondled. The juxtaposition of the images divided on three different canvases interests me. If i consider my work to be of great quality, O generally have the idea that it is perhaps the triptychs which have the most importance\u201d he said in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This work in three paintings reproduces, on the right, the composition of traditional scenes of Christian art. On the left, two men are faced with a body that shows everything. At the centre there is everything which links the artist: a bed, where a body lies as if convulsed by pain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"506\" src=\"http:\/\/icon-vrai.loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/838_bacon_2-768x506-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/838_bacon_2-768x506-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/838_bacon_2-768x506-1-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/838_bacon_2-768x506-1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spread out over 198.1 x 144.8 cm, this iconic work would make Gilles Deleuze say that this is not about hysteria of the painter but rather a hysteria of <em>painting<\/em>. \u201cPainting is hysterical, or converts hysteria, because it shows presence directly. By the colours, the lines it invests the eye. \u201cBut the eye does not treat it like a direct organs\u201d he added, \u201cBy freeing the lines and colours of representation, it also frees the eye from belonging to the organism\u2026That is Bacon, his outstanding feature\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This work in three paintings reproduces, on the right, the composition of traditional scenes of Christian art. On the left, two men are faced with a body that shows everything. 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