1. LGBT FRANCIS BACON PORTRAITS

2. FRANCIS BACON 1909-92 IS WIDELY REGARDED AS ONE OF BRITAIN`S GREATEST MODERN PAINTERS. BORN IN DUBLIN HE BEGAN HIS WORKING LIFE AS A DECORATOR, LIVED MOST OF HIS PAINTING LIFE IN LONDON, SURVIVED TWO WORLD WARS AND AS A HOMOSEXUAL MAN LIVED MUCH OF HIS LIFE AT A TIME WHEN SEX BETWEEN MEN WAS ILLEGAL.

3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES BY THE END OF THE LESSON: ALL STUDENTS MUST; GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE AND ART OF FRANCIS BACON DEVELOPING LEARNING BY CREATING A DISTORTED COMPOSITE SELF PORTRAIT FROM 3 VIEW POINTS. MOST STUDENTS SHOULD; CREATEAN EMOTIONALLY CHARGED DISTORTED SELF PORTRAIT (OR SERIES OF) MAKING INFORMED RESPONSES TO BACON`S WORK. SOME STUDENTS COULD; CREATE A SERIES OF DISTORTED SELF PORTRAITS SKILLFULLY MANIPULATING MATERIALS MAKING INFORMED, IMAGINATIVE AND PERSONAL RESPONSES TO BACON`S WORK.

4. STUDY OF GEORGE DYER IN A MIRROR 1968 BACON DEVELOPED A WAY OF PORTRAYING THE HUMAN BODY THAT WAS UNIQUE; DISTORTING APPEARANCE IN ORDER TO REACH A DEEPER TRUTH ABOUT HIS SUBJECTS. DYER WAS BACON`S LOVER AND MOST FREQUENT MODEL

5. TWO FIGURES 1953 WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS WORK? IT IS SAID THAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF WRESTLERS FOUND IN BACONS STUDIO INFORMED THE PAINTING. BACON WAS OPEN ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALITY BUT SAID THAT IT WAS AN AFFLICTION AND REJECTED THE TERMS GAY AND QUEER.

6. BACON HAD A KEEN AWARENESS OF THE RICH HISTORICAL TRADITION IN PAINTING DIEGO VELAZQUEZ PORTRAIT OF POPE INNOCENT X 1650 STUDY AFTER VELAZQUEZ PORTRAIT OF POPE INNOCENT X 1953

7. BACON DREW ON SOURCES INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHS, MAGAZINES AND FILM PHOTOBOOTH STRIPS OF BACON, DYER AND PLANTE SERGEI EISENSTEIN SCREAMING NURSE, FILM STILL FROM BATTLE SHIP POTEMKIN 1925

8. SELF PORTRAIT 1962 IN EXPRESSING HIS VISION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION BACON`S PAINTING CONTAINS FEAR, PAIN, MENACE, ANGUISH, VIOLENCE, ALIENATION AND APPREHENSION.

9. THREE STUDIES FOR THE PORTRAIT OF HENRIETTA MORAES 1963. LEARNING ACTIVITY RESPOND TO BACON`S PORTRAITS BY COMPLETING 3 A2 CHARCOAL DRAWINGS OF SELF DRAWN FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES USING A FLEXIBLE MIRROR, VARY THE SCALE OF DRAWING IN EACH PIECE AND USE BOTH THE TIP AND SIDE OF THE CHARCOAL. SPEND 5 MINS ON EACH PORTRAIT. TEAR UP YOUR DRAWINGS AND REASSEMBLE TO CREATE A DISTORTED PORTRAIT OR SERIES OF PORTRAITS, STICK DOWN. WORK BACK INTO EACH COLLAGE WITH CHARCOAL AND PUTTY RUBBER, CREATING SIMILAR FORMS AND MARKS TO THOSE OBSERVED IN BACON`S PORTRAITS. 20 MINS WORKING TIME IN PAIRS DISCUSS YOUR EXPERIENCE OF CREATING YOUR DISTORTED SELF PORTRAIT AND REVIEW THE OUTCOMES REFERRING TO THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES. 5 MINS CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION ;ONE OF THE CONTEXTS OF BACON`S LIFE WAS THAT HE LIVED IN A SOCIETY WHERE, UNTIL HE WAS NEARLY 50, SEX BETWEEN MEN HAD BEEN ILLEGAL (THE LAW CHANGED IN 1967). HOW MIGHT THIS HAVE IMPACTED ON HIS LIFE AND WORK? CLASS DISCUSSION.