francis bacon

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an Irish artist who is famous for painting people and animals in twisted shapes with dark, strong colours (1909-92). born Oct. 28, 1909, Dublin, Ire. died April 28, 1992, Madrid, Spain Irish-British painter. He lived in Berlin and Paris before settling in London (1929) to begin a career as an interior decorator. With no formal art training, he started painting, drawing, and participating in gallery exhibitions, with little success. In 1944 he achieved instant notoriety with a series of controversial paintings, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. His mature style emerged completely with the series of works known as "The Screaming Popes" (1949-mid-1950s), in which he converted Diego Velázquez's famous Portrait of Pope Innocent X into a nightmarish icon of hysterical terror. Most of Bacon's paintings depict isolated figures, often framed by geometric constructions, and rendered in smeared, violent colours. His imagery typically suggests anger, horror, and degradation

{i} (1561-1626) English politician and philosopher who advocated inductive reasoning ; (1909-1992) Irish-born British painter

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Francis Viscount St. Albans Bacon

born Jan. 22, 1561, London, Eng. died April 9, 1626, London British statesman and philosopher, father of modern scientific method. He studied at Cambridge and at Gray's Inn. A supporter of the Earl of Essex, Bacon turned against him when Essex was tried for treason. Under James I he rose steadily, becoming successively solicitor general (1607), attorney general (1613), and lord chancellor (1618). Convicted of accepting bribes from those being tried in his court, he was briefly imprisoned and permanently lost his public offices; he died deeply in debt. He attempted to put natural science on a firm empirical foundation in the Novum Organum (1620), which sets forth his scientific method. His elaborate classification of the sciences inspired the 18th-century French Encyclopedists (see Encyclopédie), and his empiricism inspired 19th-century British philosophers of science. His other works include The Advancement of Learning (1605), History of Henry VII (1622), and several important legal and constitutional works

Sir Francis Bacon

an English politician, philosopher, and writer (1561-1626)

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Definition of francis bacon in Turkish English dictionary

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filozof francis bacon ile ilgili

Baconian

Hyphenation

Fran·cis Ba·con

Turkish pronunciation

fränsıs beykın

Pronunciation

/ˈfransəs ˈbākən/ /ˈfrænsəs ˈbeɪkən/