8/5/2023 0 Comments Faceless painting gay painter![]() ![]() I believe that since I was 16, I’ve spent much of my life as a curious outsider. When I was seven years old, my father died. Growing up in a small town, I spent my childhood drawing or collecting fossils. KNSTRCT: Who is Eckart Hahn? Where did you grow up, and what it was like? What led you here, to the present.Įckart Hahn: I am the third of four children (one sister, two brothers), and, so to speak, the middle child. For many of the works, Hahn sets up models or even takes photographs to paint from, and the realism of his subjects only serves to make each illusion more compelling, "the link between pure image, and imagination." The skeleton of each scene (modeled correctly, anatomically) must come from his instruction, studying first photography in Stuttgart, before moving on to the history of art (hence our Napoleon, and others) in Tübingen. "I carry around so many thoughts and ideas," explains Hahn, "I think I’m someone who can’t filter my senses well." The paintings serve to refract that cloud of sensation, to manifest scenes in which the order our rational minds seek gives way to narrative, interrupted or distorted in each scene. Hahn's recent solo exhibition at Wagner & Partner Gallery in Berlin pushes the initial elements of his work to bolder contrasts, a more urgent, rapidly condensing perception of the world. Each still creates immediate interest, a visual draw in the oftentimes impossible narratives implied. See for instance Lord, a tribute to Napoleon's well-known portrait, except the subject is wrapped entirely in colored trash bags, and we recognize solely via pose and a dashing sash across his breast. Oftentimes a character might be masked or hidden by an asynchronous element in the frame (to borrow from film). Except it is the outline of a raven, faceless, swallowed in black, and the coil of rope ends in the incanted head of a snake. ![]() In Nachtfalke, a raven perches silent above a tangle of rope. Bacon challenges the traditions of formal painting and incorporated movement and brushwork that had never been seen before.Īll artworks in this post are available at the time of publish, if you are interested in the Francis Bacon works that we have available, please get in touch with us at you can call us on +44 (0)20 7240 7909.He might expose a reasonably normal scene, a golden retriever cut across by a thick, bright diagonal line, or a trio of sparrows pivoting around a bright-hued dot. His bold, controversial and at times frightening portraiture - will serve the test of time and will be a reference for understanding human behaviour. It is without a doubt that Francis Bacon was one of the most important artists in history. ![]() ![]() His life was kind of pretty chaotic and he just did whatever he wanted to do, drank whatever he wanted to drink, slept with whoever he wanted to sleep with he was a maverick within society… Francis Bacon’s paintings aren’t static, they’ve got total movement… - Tracey Emin The palette is subdued and lacking life and colour - the colours are unsettling with yellow often relating to suicide. The artists own personal demons can be seen here, as the figure is trying to clean himself of sin but looks like it's drowning instead. The figure is faceless and unidentifiable as we look on as a voyeur. As you can see from ' Figure at a Washbasin' the character looks twisted and meat like, his arms blending into the metal taps. ![]()
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