'Man and Beast'
, the animal was a facet of the human; dogs, birds, bulls and monkeys populate his canvases, while humans and animals combine into strange chimeras. The Royal Academy’s long-awaited exhibitiondemonstrates that animals weren’t merely a tangent of his art, but a pervasive sensibility. “He didn’t like animals”, remarks the show’s curator Michael Peppiatt.
The resulting show is a formidable survey spread across the RA’s main galleries, featuring little-seen works from private collections, while simultaneously stripping Bacon’s art of some of its ingrained familiarity. Below, we’ve picked out several paintings from the show that lay bare Bacon’s conception of “the animal within”.
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