Francis Bacon

Born on the 28th October 1909 in a nursing home in Dublin, Bacons early life was rough and not easy to deal with, after leaving education and being kicked out of his home by his father after a strange incident. He then moved to London and resorted to theft in order to get by after being fired from multiple jobs, he then found himself in Soho drifting through 'Londons homosexual underworld'.

He returned to london in 1928 after spending time in Berlin and Paris to pursue a career in interior design. 

Crucifixion was his first painting to gain real attention, however a lot of this reception was negative and this caused Bacon to stop painting for almost 10 years and caused him to destroy a lot of his early works. 

It wasn't until 1944 till Bacon started seeing success from his paintings, but from this point on he was known for his graphic and emotionally raw style.

Personally I find Francis Bacons work a bit disturbing, all of his pieces seem to be dark and sinister, they never have a sense of happiness or joy and although this is likely to be caused by his troubled past the paintings remind me of something out of a horror scene. 

Although his portraits don't carry that same serial killer atmosphere I'm still not a fan of them, its evident that they emotions being conveyed through them are ones of suffering and depression but its hard to gauge the facial expressions of the people in them, due to the morphing of their faces, so in my self portrait in the style of Bacon I didn't morph the face so much 

Bacon uses the colours in the photos to show the emotions, solid colours used for the background and washed out pale colours for the face.

He creates a stretched effect on the face using longer brush strokes, and the use of white looks as though he's used chalk on the face.