Francis Bacon

With out a doubt one of the most important figures in 20th century British painting. Bacons main subject matter is the human condition in an existentialist context. Bacons figures are isolated from their environment and struggle with the the fact of their existence. Bacon uses distortion and a sense of tension in his images,to create a strong impact on the visual senses first,before the viewer is given the opportunity to undertake an intellectual analysis of the image. It is interesting that Bacon used secondary sources eg photographs to create such vibrant paintings.