Francis Bacon Exhibition

The Francis Bacon Exhibition is being shown at the Tate Britain. It opened on the 11th of September featuring numerous rooms of his work. Each room is themed around a different part of his artistic life, and each room features a collection of his work based on that very theme. Bacon is seen as one of the best painters of the last century, he worked using various techniques of applying paint to the canvas and he would often experiment with these to create more vivid and grotesque imagery.
I have never been a massive Bacon fan, but this exhibition helped to introduce me into his work and see how powerful and raw his style of paintings was. One of the best pieces I saw was Pope innocent X in the portrait section, I feel it perfectly shows the style and method that Bacon adopted in creating his work.


The exhibition seemed to focus on the development of his work over the time that he painted. A large amount of his work seemed to focus on the human form, but also animal forms. He created dark, powerfully disturbing imagery that stayed with me once I had left. I went to the exhibition hoping to see why he is considered such a great artist, and I left realizing he deserves such praise.