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Many lost their faith in God that caused them to withdraw from the world and to question the meaning of life. It was at this time that the antihero personality began to lead toward the belief that everything was bad (dyspepsia), which, In turn, lead to the Existential movement. The distortion of features Is evident In Frances Bacon’s’ work. Bacon painted many unhappy pieces where his sitters were in pain or distress, further exemplifying the post-war art that was mostly ripped from the headlines. Francis Bacon’s’ work is an iconic study of the tragically wounded humanity common in post World War II.
Isolated souls tortured and Imprisoned by the dilemmas of society made his work Iconic. The world today has an intensified focus on trying to find meaning. Whether we have learned from our mistakes remains to be seen. We continue to fight against one another, and to distort reality. Just as in the painting, everything is a little out of focus, even though the puzzle piece Is there we are unsure exactly where It fits. Works Cited Francis Bacon. (2014). Retrieved April 21, 2014, from The Art Story. Org: http:// www. Territory. Org/artist-bacon-Frances. Tm chose to look at Willie De Cooking’s Woman and Bicycle (35. 3) because I really didn’t understand It upon first looking at It and It made me curious as to what message the artist was trying to send. The woman in it is fragmented and distorted, s life sometimes is. It seems as if the artist has experienced pain or trauma and that comes out of his unconscious through his painting, his work Is very primitive and appears to have been done with violence or anger. I would guess he was ambivalent towards women and was seeking to understand them through his work.
I don’t know if De Cooking was searching for meaning as much as struggling with internal conflicts involving women. The woman in the painting has very prominent breasts however most of her body is barely distinguishable. The painting Is chaotic and complicated and very dramatic and maybe he found meaning in that or possibly it as cathartic for him to let his emotions out through his work. I think it is human nature for people to search for meaning however we are generally never satisfied. Most people find meaning in family, religion or their careers but it people will always question existence.
This has led to scientific and philosophical speculation which has helped evolve us to the moral society we live in today, so even if we don’t find all the 1 OFF The quote from De Cooking below encompasses exactly what you are saying in your post. He imbued his paintings with emotion. Through the way he paints the viewer an connect with the variety of emotion in the painting. “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it, drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space.
Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea. ” (The Art Story. Org, 2014). De Cooking was a celebrated artist of the same caliber as Pollock. His work fused Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism in a radical style. De Cooking spent a great deal of time painting women. His figures are purposely ambiguous and offer a unique depiction of women n distorted and divergent poses. De Cooking sought to leave his work in a state of movement that left them feeling unfinished. Although I do not understand his work, it is, as you say, very confusing; he is thought to be one of the most polished painters from the New York School.
His influencer were Rembrandt, which I can see to some degree, Rueben and Ingress. It is undeniable that human beings have an innate desire to question the meaning of life. I think that is why there are so many different belief systems in the world today. It Just seems sad to me that people do not realize the impel fact that all it takes is to treat one another with care and concern, no matter what their beliefs. Picasso Less Demolishes Davidson shows the Search for meaning of this time because it truly was unlike any other piece of art created before it.
According to PBS, “In creating Less Demolishes Davidson, Picasso turns his back on middle-class society and the traditional values of the time, opting for the sexual freedom depicted in a brothel” (ASS). Picasso explains, “If we give spirits a form, we become independent” (PBS) meaning that if you express your inner demons, you can become free from the burdens they caused. When people first saw Picasso Less Demolishes Davidson they gasped at the horror of the ugliness of the faces, and this piece was hidden for several years (PBS).
This represents the search for meaning because it was unlike anything that was created before it and it offended middle class society. The search for meaning has not been found and will continue to remain unfounded because meaning is up to the modern society views and this viewpoint is constantly being changed and revised. To me, this painting looks like a catharsis of one woman. It can be taken either way, she goes from lovely to distorted, or from distorted to lovely. I see it as from lovely to distorted, Just the way life tends to go.
She starts out beautiful and confident, moves to strong and secure, then into pliant, next comes a dark phase of losing herself and questioning her identity, to a distorted version of what she once was. Maybe this was Picasso way of viewing the world through a woman’s eyes. You can see, as well how the stance of the woman changes throughout the painting from erect to a bent over strong and fresh and have gone through many different phases in our evolution. I hope we somehow find the ability to come back around to full circle where we are again fresh and strong.
I truly hope we have not gone so far into the darkness that we have become a distorted version of ourselves. It is a very real and harsh possibility that humanity has become a distorted version of what we could be. Bacon’s’ style matured in the sass’s, a time of great tribulation in the world. Bacon was able to capture movement in his paintings, a style he based off of film and photography. He felt it was important to continue to create paintings although many felt that painting was beginning to fall by the wayside. Bacon was actually a descendent of the famed Francis Bacon of the 16th century.
He had a violent upbringing that he said contributed to the turbulent style of painting he developed. His father was in the War Office during World War I and he constantly heard soldiers maneuvering. Francis faced his homosexuality with some trepidation and eventually told his parents of his sexual orientation. His parents immediately expelled him from home. After this time he traveled around London, Berlin and Paris where he lived on the small allowance his parents gave him. All of these experiences contributed to his distorted and angry painting. Bacon felt his work either belonged in a gallery or in the trash, he never was sure which.