Forms of feeling: The human body in distress Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909 1992)developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions.Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subjectravaged, distorted, and dismemberedso as to writhe and wail withintense emotional content.With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, hisgripping, often grotesque, portraitsare as much reflections on the trials and the...
Forms of feeling: The human body in distress Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909 1992)developed a unique ability to transform interi...
