Francis Bacon was born in ireland on 1909. He specialized in
expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, and he is most known for his raw and
brutal imagery. Bacon is even quoted saying that his art expresses the
"brutality of fact." This work was created by Bacon in response to
World War II. The butchery in this image is intended to be a reflection of the
realities of war and all the tragedy that accompanies it. The image shows a
spread carcass in front of a man who has blood dripping from his upper-lip, exposing him as a carnivore. The blood running from this man's mouth is
the blood spilled on the battlefield, and he is the war machine consuming human
life as meat.
This image exposes the brutality of war and the death that
accompanies it. War is a butchery, and the meat that enters the butchery of war
belongs to cognitive humans. Death is the essence of war, and they stand
side-by-side.
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