The Return Of The Body:the Obscure Expression In Francis Bacon’s Paintings

In fact,it has been on the verge of being persecuted and despised by the Western tradition,and has been on the verge of being oppressed and frustrated by the Western tradition.Until the 20 th century,under the influence of Freud and Nietzsche,the body woke up from the long spitting dream and began to return to the center and standard,becoming an important new social topic and a new discourse of the times.Francis Bacon is the most arrogant artist in Britain after World War II and an important representative of painting reform in the 20 th century.He loved poetry and tragedy,and read a large number of Freud and Nietzsche’s works.Literature and philosophy inspired Francis Bacon.Under the impact of the times and the Enlightenment of the trend of modernization,Francis Bacon has faded the elegance of the civilized world.His works look directly at the original appearance of "man",expose the original nature of human nature,such as violence,desire,panic and anxiety,and entangle and collide with the inner uneasiness that human beings are most reluctant to face.His works vividly describe the tension and contradiction in real life with sharp,heroic,violent and nightmarish images.The chaotic and distorted body in his works is broken and isolated in space,which reflects the dilemma faced by mankind after the war and the spiritual crisis of mankind in the 20 th century,and reflects self loss,sex and violence and "extreme despair".The body in Francis Bacon’s painting is the judgment of intuition,the expression of self experience and a subversion of ancient elegant art.The body image in his art reveals to us that the body is neither the starting point nor the end point,which implicitly expresses the transformation that the body returns to become the aesthetic subject after the 20 th century.