FRANCIS BACON "SECOND VERSION, TRIPTYCH 1944" LITHOGRAPH, 1989Francis Bacon (1909 1992) is one of the most distinctive, provocative, and influential painters of the 20th century. He is a true disrupter in the canon of Art History. His singular aesthetic was an intersection between abstraction and expressionistic portraiture. While the subjects in his paintings were often identified, distinctive features were typically smeared and distorted, often reflecting their inner turmoil or the artist's conflicting

the composition is bustling with organic lines and curvilinear forms that stretch dynamically across a horizontal plane

these elements come together in a dystopian landscape

It is also an exceptionally rare instance of the artist printing in black and white

overlaid with grey-washes in differing levels of opacity creating a sense of pictorial depth

and even Renaissance portraiture

In the spirit of the portfolio

Iskowitz's watercolours offer distinctive colourful clusters that vibrate across the page

both warm and cool

The Guggenheim Museum (NY)

He would define his signature aesthetic by finding and transforming torn posters into art

The mat is crafted from pieces of salvaged life vests found on Mediterranean beaches

For art lovers in Toronto