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February 12, 2021 English painter Francis Bacon poses during portrait session in Galerie Maeght Lelong in January 1984. Photo by Ulf Andersen via Getty. Credit: Getty Images
Martin Gayford considers the importance of snarling creatures, human and otherwise, in the art of Francis Bacon.
Although the late Francis Bacon was a brilliant conversationalist, almost as gifted with words as he was with a paintbrush, he was deeply reluctant to expound on one point: what his own pictures were all about. His favourite explanation boiled down to… nothing, that they illustrated no story, symbolised no idea, encoded no deeper significance.
Not surprisingly, platoons of art historians have endeavoured to discover the hidden meaning of Bacons. An importantexhibition at the Royal Academy (RA), ‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’, will try a novel line: that the artist’s work was very much concerned with animals. (Its opening is postponed until lockdown m