#painting 1946

[the-goya-jerker]

Obsessed with your blog… Could you review Francis Bacon’s Painting 1946? Seems up your alley

I love you for this.

I love love love Francis Bacon's works. They're so upsetting oftentimes. This one specifically invokes a similar feeling as Saturn Devouring His Son for me. It's so horrific to look at that it tugs at my chest and makes me feel sick. I didn't explain this much in my original review of Saturn, but so much of what appeals to me about it is the strong emotions it makes me feel. It's so visceral I just have to jack it to work through my emotions, this one is similar.

I love the seeming butcher's floor in the background, the grotesqueness of the surroundings. The painting is seeped in death, in mutilation. The opened pig(?) carcass, the man with only half a head.

There's just something about a good decapitation, some mutilation of the body that, artistically, gets me going. It really tugs at something primal and visceral for me.

Overall, while this review is pretty short compared to some, it's because it's such a knockout 10/10.

[strixessabre]

Carry around some art on your jacket or bag with Bacon!

( Strixes' Sabre )

[gameraboy2]

Nymphs in Summer by Howard Chandler Christy, 1946

[theamericanpin-up]

Alberto Vargas - "Jeanne Dean" - 1946 Nude Painting - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko Aeolian Harp/No.7 1946 oil on canvas 38 1/2 x 54 3/8 in. Collection of Christopher Rothko, © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

[adventurelandia]

Wet Paint (1946)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Eye Colour by M.C. Escher, 1946

[artschoolglasses]

Arbol de la Esperanza, Frida Kahlo, 1946

[nemfrog]

Pictograph. 1946. Oil on canvas. Adolph Gottlieb. Whitney Museum Exhibition Catalog. 1967.

Internet Archive

[onenakedfarmer]

Daily Painting

Jean Dubuffet THE DANCING PARTNER WITH DIAMONDS (1946)

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Approaching a City (1946) by Edward Hopper

[robertogreco]

Jacob Lawrence, Watchmaker, 1946 (via Hodinkee)

[gameraboy2]

Bizarre #4 (1946) by John Willie

[introspect-la]

PICKETS BY ROY DECARAVA (1946)

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, c. 1945-46

watercolor, ink gouache and graphite on paper

MET Collection 

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York  

[anotherartgallery]

Max Ernst - Adam and Eve Expelled from the Garden of Eden painting and scale