‘Man and Beast’ shows that devotion that affected the treatment of the human figure by the British artist of Irish origin.
London (EFE).- The fascination with animals and their movement that the British artist of Irish origin Francis Bacon (1909-1992) showed throughout his career will be explored chronologically in the exhibition Man And Beast, which will be presented this Saturday by the Royal Academy Of Arts (RA) in London.
The exhibition, which can be seen until April 17, will also focus on how that devotion to animals affected Bacon’s treatment of the human figure, the RA revealed in a statement on Wednesday.
The museum will house some 45 outstanding paintings from throughout the artist’s career; from his early works between 1930 and 1950 to his last work, “Study of a Bull” (1991), which will be exhibited in the UK publicly for the first time.
As the note anticipates, a trio of paintings about bullfights, painted in 1969, will also be exhibited for the first time to the public as a central part of the event.
The gallery recalls that during his life, the artist “he was captivated by the movement of animals”, which he followed on trips to South Africa and which led him to hoard many books on wildlife.
Bacon believed that by observing the uninhibited behavior of these, one could get closer to what is the true core of humanity..
The exhibition will be structured chronologically with a group of works of biomorphic creatures, which he created between 1944 and 1946, and which he described as a “distortion of the human body”.
In the early 1950s, Bacon made two trips to South Africa, and another section of the exhibition will focus on those experiences, according to the note, with an exploration through his work of his interest in observing animals when they moved across vast grasslands.
The statement also highlights that the artist’s concern with movement and his distortion of human and animal bodies paved the way for the extreme distortion that characterized his work from 1960 onwards. That period will also be included in the RA.
Bacon’s lover and muse, George Dyer, whom he met in 1963, center another part of the sample. He was the main object of the painter’s work during that decade and he committed suicide two days before the opening of an important retrospective of the painter’s work that was held at the Grand Palais (Paris).
The Erinyes or Furies, one of the most enigmatic and consistent motifs in his work, also occupy another prominent place in this exhibition, which will conclude with “Study of a Bull” (1991), the last painting Bacon painted.
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