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- Head_VI abstract "Head VI is a 1949 oil on canvas painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, the final of the six panels of his 1949 "head" series. It shows a bust view of a single figure, probably a pope, who is shown behind horizontal curtain-like drapes. The overall effect is of a figure trapped and suffocated by his surroundings and circumstance, screaming in vain into an airless glass-sealed void. The work is noted for its physical, expressive brush strokes and for being Bacon's first work to refer to Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X, a painting that was to haunt the artist; Head VI is the first of Bacon's "screaming popes", which total more than 45 individual works. Head VI contains many painterly motifs that were to reapper in Bacon's work. The hanging object that may be a light switch or curtain tassel, can be found even in his late paintings. It is the second painting– after his 1949 Study for Portrait – in which the sitter is enlcosed within a geometric cage; many other examples were to follow; and appear as late as his masterpiece, the Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86.By 1949 Bacon was a highly controversial but mostly respected artist, the enfant terrible of British art. This work drew mixed criticism. John Russell, who became one of the artist's firmest supporters, dismissed it as a cross between an "alligator shorn of its jaws and a bespectacled accountant". In 1989 Lawrence Gowing wrote that the "shock of the picture, when it was seen with a whole series of heads in Bacon's exhibition a the Hanover Gallery in London at Christmas 1949, was indescribable. It was everything unpardonable. The paradoxical appearance at once of pastiche and iconoclasm was indeed one of Bacon's most original strokes. The picture remains one of his masterpieces and one of the least conventional, least foreseeable pictures of the twentieth century." " Head VI was first exhibited in November 1949, in a showing organised by one of the artist's early champions, Erica Brausen. David Sylvester described it in 2000 as the most seminal piece from Bacon's unusually productive 1949–50 period, and one of Bacon's finest "Popes".".
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- Head_VI caption "Francis Bacon, Study for the Nurse in the film Battleship Potemkin, 1957".
- Head_VI caption "Still from Eisenstein's 1925 The Battleship Potemkin. Bacon described this early film still as a key catalyst for his work".
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- Head_VI image "Francis Bacon Study for the Nurse in the Battleship Potemkin.jpg".
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- Head_VI subject Category:1949_paintings.
- Head_VI subject Category:Irish_paintings.
- Head_VI subject Category:Modern_paintings.
- Head_VI subject Category:Paintings_by_Francis_Bacon.
- Head_VI comment "Head VI is a 1949 oil on canvas painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, the final of the six panels of his 1949 "head" series. It shows a bust view of a single figure, probably a pope, who is shown behind horizontal curtain-like drapes. The overall effect is of a figure trapped and suffocated by his surroundings and circumstance, screaming in vain into an airless glass-sealed void.".
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