Philosophical And Existential Meanings Behind His Paintings

As a child, he was shy and enjoyed dressing up even though this really upset his father. In 1926, Bacon was found admiring himself dressed in women’s undergarments and was thrown out of the home where his family lived (Wiki). Inside his mind, there was a battle that would never cease and this type of inner torment can be seen in his work. One such piece of work was Bacons rendition of the Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650 Velazquez). The resemblances of the versions included the Pope sitting in a chair looking directly at the viewer. However, that is where the similarities end. In the 1953 painting, Bacon tore away the flesh from the Pope leaving a screaming skeleton in the place of the stern-faced pope in the original painting. Being up to interpretation, I view this painting in as if Bacons goal was to capture the anger that he had received his whole life from his father and religious leaders of the

Man has been creating art for over 30,000 years. There are cave drawings, sculptures, Egyptian art, Greek Art, Modern Art and plenty more but to many, the Renaissance Art period is considered to be most important. Never had so many geniuses in art lived at one time and never had so many pieces of cherished art been produced. Two examples of Renaissance paintings are Cigoli’s Adoration of the Shepherds and Moretto da Brescia’s Entombment. Both paintings posses the attributes that were popular during the Renaissance period which I will now contrast and compare.

In this essay, the difference between Northern Baroque and Italian Baroque styles of painting, the differences between a male and a female interpretation, the narrative differences, and the psychological dilemmas they present to the viewer will be discussed.

Jackson Pollock was a legendary, novel, abstract expressionist who has created numerous paintings through his drip-style, action painting technique (Goodnough, 2012). Theosophical influence arose from Phillip Guston and Thomas Hart Benton, while in the early stages of the artist’s life. Muralists, such as Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera were also admired and studied by Pollock. He was captivated by the unorthodox techniques of David Alfaro Siqueiros which contributed to the abstract style of Jackson Pollock (Solomon, 1987).

The visual work I have chosen is the Bith of Venus and is one of the world’s most famous works of art. Painted by Sandro Botticelli between 1482 and 1485, it is the first example of painting on canvas. The written work I have chosen is the Stanze per la Giostra. It was written by Angelo Poliziano, written between 1475-8. Both works are examples from the Italian Renaissance era, during the Medici rule, and share the theme of beauty and humanism. The works I've selected share the same subject matter, Venus, and is the perfect example of beauty and humanism. She is the epitome of beauty and her birth from the sea is an example of her metamorphosis of humanism. For this paper, I will compare both works then discuss how the shared theme is seen in contemporary works. How does Venus and her beautiful metamorphosis fit into contemporary forms of beauty and humanism?

My interpretation of his work is the lady is in distress and anxiety is slightly obvious. The reasons for my interpretation, is the use of the dark background while the blotches of red scattered on her face and shoulders. My first impression of this artwork by Francis Bacon, was the uniqueness of the curves and unusual distortions of the facial features. The artwork is from one of his series of portraits he painted of his close friends. This particular portrait painting is of Henrietta Moraes, who was a close friend and drinking companion of Francis' from the early 1960s. The ideas in this artwork is to capture the different aspects of her appearance and to reveal her as in the 'most elemental state'. Feelings such as the sense of chaos and

After World War II, Europe and its landscape was all but destroyed. The European spirit was even more devastated. Pessimism reigned, and moral conflict between the Western powers and the Eastern coalition intensified a growing sense of worthlessness, hostility, and angst. This was clear in much of the post-war abstract art.

The first appropriation, ‘Head VI’, was part of Bacon’s ‘1949 Head’ series where he based the figure in the painting on Velazquez’ ‘Innocent X’. Up until around the mid-1960s, Bacon created approximately 45 appropriations of Velazquez’ painting. While not completely known why Bacon was obsessed with the ‘Innocent X’ portrait, it is speculated that it may have been a psychological connection Bacon made in regards to his sexuality or the ‘Holy Father’ image reminding him of his traumatic feelings towards his father, of whom his was rejected and abused.

The painting “Dream Caused By The Flight Of A Bee Around A Pomegranate A Second Before Awakening” was painted by Dali in 1944. The painting is an oil on canvas painting with a dimension of 51cm x 40.5 cm. Salvador Dali was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Spain. In his masterpiece he uses many different lines and colors to enhance what is going on in the painting. He illustrates a fruit, a fish, tigers, a rifle and a woman wearing no clothes sleeping. With every single object and or living thing shown he is making a statement and everything in the painting itself symbolizes something in the world. Dali’s “Caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before awakening” depicts vulnerability and

Post WWII the expressionists of Europe captured the cynicism and distaste for the war using a type of abstract expressionism that highlighted form and raw energy over the subject matter itself (Kleiner, 411). Francis Bacon, although he did not label himself as an expressionist, was one of the artists follow this new trend in the postmodern art world. His piece from 1953, Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, makes use of a previously done portrait by Diego Velazquez of the Pope Innocent X and changes the form into something much more crude and chilling, creating a portrait of someone much less noble than the original. Post WWII Europe was a time of great change in philosophy as well with many existentialists starting to take

When we look at the history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, we always like to use the confinement of thinking and the liberation of ideas to sum up the two, especially in the art, the medieval paintings are often used in dark colors, deformed three-dimensional concept Showing the real world, and often less a bit human nature. And after the Renaissance, the painting masters are the opposite of it. I am not here to comment on their good or bad, but from the artistic point of view, to explore whether a good form of art needs to reflect the community and a wide range of civilizations

Francis Bacon was an Irish-born English artist known for his raw, controversial and emotionally charged works (Gale, Tate Gallery) often referred to as the “enfant terrible” of British art (Schama, 7) . Many of his works, including Study After Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, are palimpsest using a variety of different images to create his own original works. Study After Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X is part of the loose series of “screaming popes” (Sylvester, 40) of which there are approximately 45 surviving works (Schmied, 17) completed during the 50’s and early 60’s. The series was not only inspired by Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velazquez’s Portrait of the Pope Innocent X, a painting which Bacon had many copies of but famously avoided seeing in person (Phaidon) The truth behind Francis Bacon 's 'screaming ' popes) but also medical textbooks, works by the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald (Schmeid, 53) and the screaming nurse on the Odessa Steps sequence in Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film Броненосец Потемкин [The Battleship Potemkin] (Peppiatt, 43).

I personally get a sense of perfection in a human world when I look at this painting, which is a bit misleading but appropriate for a time in which men were beginning to question the divine and finding answers in the natural world where science and mathematical solutions were starting to make sense of everything around us.

•A summary of the artists' personal philosophies of art (if they can be found in published sources), and the prevailing trends and schools of thought in the art world at the time and in the place the artist was working. For instance, discuss what was taking place in the artist's city, country, and/or church that may have provoked a reaction from the artist or the greater society. Include any information that might help the reader understand the artist's point of view or why the artist made his or her choices in this work of art.

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.