2/5 Figure in Movement, 1976, is one of Bacon’s masterpieces, composed with his grief as its central theme. Two figures are depicted wrestling on a nearly fire-coloured platform, bounded by the edges of a geometric cube. This image creates a state for backgound "Bacon 1"
3/5 The Background "Bacon 2" samples the centre panel of Oresteia of Aeschylus, from 1981, a triptych touching Bacon’s fascination with Greek tragedy.
The Oresteia is a trilogy exploring parental violence, trauma, and death— all themes that haunt Bacon’s art.
4/5 Bacon’s Triptych - August 1972 has the male body as a point of focus. The detailed and intense working of the body contrasts directly with the flat expanses of the setting in a way that is typical of Bacon’s paintings.
This painting also serves as inspo for the "Bacon 3" BG
5/5 Despite his existentialist and bleak outlook, Bacon was charismatic, articulate, and well-read. A bon vivant, he spent his middle age eating, drinking, and gambling in London with like-minded friends, including Lucian Freud, the once owner of Seated Figure, 1960. BG Bacon 4
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