From Picasso to Velazquez
Irish-born painter Francis Bacon has gained a reputation as one of the most influential painters of the 20th century yet the average viewer often finds his work alienating and hard to understand. This exhibition, which puts his oeuvre in a wider European context aims to bring a better perspective to his tortured images of the human body. Overstepping the mark in both his life and his art, Bacon broke down deeply entrenched attitudes to painting yet while his work embodies modernity, it also carries the genes of earlier masters. More than 80 works will go on show including important but rarely exhibited paintings by Bacon alongside some of the French and Spanish masters who played a huge role in forming his artistic tastes and expression over his long career.
Until January 8th, 2017 at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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