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- Head_II abstract "Head I is an oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon. Completed in 1948, it is the second in a series of six heads, painted from the winter of 1948 in preparation for a November 1949 exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, London. The figure seems half human, half animal, and has disintegrated to an extent that, like the preceding Head I of the series, the entire upper head has disappeared leaving only mouth and jaw. The figure is set in a shallow pictorial space, and is positioned behind curtains that borrow from Titian's 1558 Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto. The curtains are fastened at one point by a safety pin. John Russell sees the curtains as enclosing the figure, as if the walls of a prison or execution dock. Remarking on their dreary and drab appearance he further speculates that they seem "stiffened by fifty year's crasse of a tenth rate lodging-house; or they could be sliding shutters that has been pulled apart to admit a new victim."The painting's overall grisaille appearance give the impression of x-ray photographs, and the look may have been inspired by K.C. Clark's "Positioning In Radiography", a book Bacon often acknowledged as a key source for his work. The painting contains a small arrow just below the figures mouth; the first appearance of a motif the artist was to continue using for the rest of his career.".
- Head_II wikiPageID "41935188".
- Head_II wikiPageRevisionID "595364142".
- Head_II subject Category:1949_paintings.
- Head_II subject Category:Irish_paintings.
- Head_II subject Category:Modern_paintings.
- Head_II subject Category:Paintings_by_Francis_Bacon.
- Head_II comment "Head I is an oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon. Completed in 1948, it is the second in a series of six heads, painted from the winter of 1948 in preparation for a November 1949 exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, London. The figure seems half human, half animal, and has disintegrated to an extent that, like the preceding Head I of the series, the entire upper head has disappeared leaving only mouth and jaw.".
- Head_II label "Head II".
- Head_II sameAs m.049bmt7.
- Head_II sameAs Q17021663.
- Head_II sameAs Q17021663.
- Head_II wasDerivedFrom Head_II?oldid=595364142.
- Head_II isPrimaryTopicOf Head_II.