Francis Bacon in Correlation with my Practise
As of right now, there are many directions I could take my practise. Over the Summer holidays I focused on a few different concepts which I will develop in my own time. Now that I am back at Uni i want to go beyond just concepts. However, I have been struggling thinking of what I can do or rather what I want to do. In all art I create it is very clear my main objective has been to get reactions from the audiences and I love how I can manipulate emotions with a stroke of a paintbrush.
I want my work to mean something though. So for this part of my practise I am going to be a bit selfish; I want my work to mean something to me. For me I don't need an audiences approval, art is my thing, art is my expression. I no longer want to make art that pleases others, i want to create art that pleases me.
I have been doing some research trying to draw inspiration and I discovered an artist I have came across before but decided to look into him more in depth; Francis Bacon.
The dark atmosphere of his work is what drawn me in to begin with. I then came across a documentary by BBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrO5za0lSY&t=368s and I was blown away. Bacon has clearly been through a lot through out his life but because of these events and his sadism ways he creates these masterpieces influenced by his emotions but also by real events that occurred during his life.
I have been positively influenced by Francis Bacon and I am generally really interested in what he did produce. The time period in which he was curating these obscure pieces it was out of the norm and had a shock value but over time his style and him as a person became more widely recognised and appreciated. The fact that he was bringing his own troubles, his own raw emotions into his painting proved how passionate and important the act of painting was to Bacon. He let the anger, frustration - the masochism take over and let that control his work.
Going back to my practise, I want to draw my own personal connection with my own work, focus on the raw emotion I am putting into it and not to worry if it is appealing to the audience. I want to focus solely on my passion for creating artworks and my motivation to do so, wether that be painting hard hitting imagery or a vase a flowers.
Francis Bacon also worked on portraits of peoples faces he knew quite well. He depicts certain features and almost exaggerates them creating significance of his relationship with the individual. Although not realistic the people in the paintings are definitely recognisable. He seemed to go beyond the basic definition of art which is recreating or capturing something to its true likeness and instead became very expressionistic and also captured the movements.
Below is a quick drawing I created with Oil Pastels on Textured Paper. I did not overthink this piece I started to draw attention to my feelings at the time. I was in a dark places, I wasn't happy and questioning a lot of things . The rapid mark makings and the limited colour palette was definitely inspired by Bacon as well as the lack of detail. I wanted to focus on raw emotion and create "figurative" art work rather than sitting for hours and focusing on every detail; instead I focused on the main features and expressions with very little detail. This new minimalistic approach I have to Fine Art has transitioned my work in such a peculiar way but is having a positive affect in how I represent my practise.
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