Chris's post about Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was an Irish painter who was well knows for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon began his carrier as a painter late in his life because in is early years to about his 20's he could not decide on what he really wanted to do for the rest of his life. He had his breakthrough when he saw the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. My favorite piece of art done by him is his Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Innocent X. This is probably his most famous painting, and it sums up his type of painting which involves abstract figures that typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometric cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds.