Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Francis Bacon: Human Presence – a compelling look at how the artist redefined portraiture

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Rina Arya, Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of the School of the Arts, University of Hull

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the National Portrait Gallery demonstrates.

Visitors to Francis Bacon: Human Presence are greeted by his studies of papal figures and men in suits. In these works, Bacon encased his figures in the suggestions of boxes, which are known as “space-frames”.…

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