Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon  was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstracted figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid-30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs. Later, he admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent too long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest.^[2] His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and it was this work and his heads and figures of the late 1940s through to the mid 1950s that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak chronicler of the human condition.

Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon

'He's one of the greatest painters of all time'

I m very impressed by the works of Francis Bacon. there are different points why.

if we are talking about the meaning of his works i could say that the idea of the different reality inside of the normal one makes the art work completely different. It is hard to analyze the feelings which are inside his works.  He use some historical moments from the history not only europe and destroyed them and changed using colour