Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat
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Francis Bacon: The Beauty of MeatAuthor(s): Francis Bacon, Adriano Pedrosa, Laura Cosendey, Isabela Ferreira Loures, Dominic James, Francis Giacobetti, Gregory Salter, Rina Arya, Laura Cosendey, Paulo Herkenhoff\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: MASP, Brazil\nImprint: Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo / KMEC Books\nISBN-13: 9786557770511, 978-6557770511\nSynopsis\nUsing the painters queer identity as a framework to understand his visceral approach to figuration\n\nFrancis Bacon is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, best known for his distinctive way of portraying human figures. Especially in his male portraits and nudes, the physicality of the bodyskin, flesh, musclesis translated by the artist into thick, oily textures, giving the figures almost abstract shapes. Flashes of teeth, torsos and rib cages underscore Bacons visceral philosophy regarding the human form. As the artist famously said: We are meat, we are potential carcasses. If I go into a butchers shop I .
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