Essay on Francis Bacon

Francis Bacons’ painting career began during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s when is career began to really flourish. Before this time he was working as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs to earn his living. Bacon admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent too long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest. He started off by mainly focusing on and producing portraits of heads of friends. Most of Francis Bacons work is based on heads. I don’t really like his work because all of his paintings look deformed and I don’t really find them interesting to look at. I like the colours he uses on some of his paintings and the rough brush marks. He is famously described as ‘’that man who paints those dreadful pictures’’ which I totally agree, Some of his paintings look half human and half something else. I find that his paintings are mostly of males. Some of his paintings are of the naked body that are also deformed and disturbing. Bacons work is similar to the work of Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud who also paint the naked body. Francis Bacon was born 22^nd January 1561 and famously died on 9^th April 1626 of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. Francis Bacon often referred to other artist and used photographs as reference material for his paintings.

Title of painting: Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953: This painting is a disturbing portrait of the screaming pope, from a painting by the Spanish artist Diego Velazquez that was painted in 1650.

Many of Francis Bacons painting are disturbing even a simple portrait can be transformed into something shocking by the artist. Francis Bacon had a fascination with flesh and movement. Francis Bacon Quote ‘’Flesh and meat are life! If I paint red meat as a paint bodies it is just because I find it beautiful.’’

This is an example of one of his shocking portraits.

Title of painting: Head III 1961.

essay on Lucain Freud

Lucian Freud moved with his family to England in 1993 to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British citizen in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall school in Totnes, and then later in Bryanston school. Lucian Michael Freud was born on 8^th December 1992 He is known for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings. From the 1960s he began to paint portrait, often nudes, to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, employing a thicker impasto. With this technique he would often clean his brush after every stroke. The colours of his paintings are typically muted. Lucian Freud’s subjects are often the people in his life. In the 1970s Freud spent 4,000 hours on a serious of paintings of his mother.  Freud has painted fellow artist, including Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon. He is one of the best known British artists working in a representational style. He paints in a very similar way to Jenny Saville and Rubens. I like how he paints real bodies he used many colours and has a rough way of painting which is really effective. Even though his painting are a lot like Jenny Savilles’ work some of his paintings are very unique. He builds the paint up to get good tonal use. I would say Lucian Freud is one my favourite artist along with Jenny Saville because they both paint in the same way. Although some of Jenny’s paintings are disturbing I think this is something I want to look at because it’s real life images. I like how Lucian doesn’t just paint model size women but paints much larger women as well. I enjoy painting in the same style of Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville I think their work has influenced me.

essay on Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville studied at the Slade School of fine art between 1992 and 1993. She has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. Her painterly style has been compared to Lucian Freud and Rubens. Her paintings are usually much larger than life size and are strongly pigmented. Her paintings give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. In some of her work she adds marks onto the body, such as white ‘’target’’ rings. I find Jenny Saville’s work really fascinating to look at, I really like how she uses different tones and the marks she uses are really effective Although I find her paintings quite disturbing. She tends to paint trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients. This is unique but she also has the same style as Lucas Freud and Rubens they both paint in a similar way to Jenny Saville and tend to use the same rough mark markings. Jenny was born in Cambridge in 1970, she is an English painter and is known for her large –scale painted of naked women. She works and lives between London and Palermo. Jenny Saville tends to focus on the female body, painting large-scale paintings. She has painted work of transsexuals and transvestites. She spent many hours observing plastic surgery in New York. When I first had to research Jenny Saville I didn’t like her work because of the disturbing paintings but actually got to like them in a weird way because how detailed they are and how well she uses real life images and her style of painting is really unusual.  These painting are real women and real problems that’s what I like about Jenny’s work. She isn’t paintings what isn’t real. Her work has influenced me because I enjoy painting in this kind of style.

Greenwash.

Greenwash is an environmental claim which is unsubstantiated.
And greenwash is growing. The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK is upholding more and
more complaints against advertising that can’t live up to its green bluster. Around the world regulators
are trying to keep up, and the USA’s Federal Trade Commission has brought forward to 2008 its plan
to review their environmental marketing guidelines. France has just announced new guidelines and the UK is reviewing the advertising Green Claims guidance. But is this enough?
Why all the fuss? business towards greater greenness. Greenwash is the spanner in the works that could sabotage the
whole environmental movement within business. This guide reveals the industries most actively greenwashing, and those environmental claims most likely to be greenwash. Not enough is being
done to prevent this accelerating negative feedback loop. None of the UK’s biggest advertising agencies
claim to have training or guidelines for their staff on what is a justified green claim. And none of the main publications in the UK who sell advertising space
have their own standard.

Evaluation

For the project i had to create my own blog page using eblogger. To start me off i had to firstly pick a nice layout and tittle for my blog. I have chosen my own name for the tiitle of my blog because it is simple and it makes it clear for viewers. I then had to find 5 blogs that i found interesting and would enjoy looking at and follow them on eblogger. Then to make my blog look interesting i had to do regular blogs throughout the weeks on this project. I found it difficult at first beacuse i have never used eblogger before but then found the right techniques to make a blog. I really enjoyed this project i have never done a blog before and i think i will keep adding to it. If i could improve my blog i would have added more posts and added some work of my own. I think i gave 100% dedication to this project and think it went well. I think if i could improve anything it would be my time keeping.

Independent Blogging..

I think this cd cover is really interesting, i think this is also a Photomontage. They have used images to build the picture up. I think they have used the right choice of colours and i also think the type is effective. If i saw this cd i would buy it just beacuse i think the picture catches my attention but if i had never heard this cd before i wouldn't have a clue what it was about because the picture gives nothing away it just makes you want to listen.

Lord of the rings, Photomontage

I have recently had to create my own Photomontage using Photopshop. This is an example of a 'Lord of the rings' Photomontage. I think this Photomontage is effective because all of the characters are the centre of the page and the tittle is at the top were the space is. My eye goes straight to the middle of the page beacuse all the attention is there. The only thing i think this Photomontage lacks is some bright colour but i suppose these colours and the dullness is the theme of 'Lord of the rings'.