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Francis Bacon's "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X."

Name: Francis Bacon's "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X."
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Author: M.A. Björn David Herzig
ISBN: 978-3-640-52060-2

Essay, 2002

6 Pages, Grade: 75/100 (A)

M.A. Björn David Herzig (Author)

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Critics usually agree that seeing a painting by Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) is, to a greater or lesser degree, an aesthetically painful experience. While this might be said of many works of art created in the 20th century, in the case of Bacon, this painfulness can surely be understood in a very specific sense. In the course of this essay, I shall focus on one of Bacon's earlier works, his 1953 painting "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X." I will try to analyze in which way the picture achieves its disturbing effect and in how far this effect lies at the very center of the 'meaning' of Bacon's painting.

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Title: Francis Bacon's "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X."
College: University of Edinburgh (College of Humanities and Social Sciences; School of Arts, Culture and Environment)
Grade: 75/100 (A)
Author: M.A. Björn David Herzig (Author)
Year: 2002
Pages: 6
Catalog Number: V141822
ISBN (eBook): 9783640519071
ISBN (Book): 9783640520602
File size: 461 KB
Language: English
Keywords: Francis Bacon, Velázquez, negative aesthetics, expressionism, surrealism, 20th century painting, figurative painting, existentialism in painting

Quote paper: M.A. Björn David Herzig (Author), 2002, Francis Bacon's "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X.", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/141822

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