Fracis Bacon

Artist: Francis Bacon
Size: 24 1/4 x 18"

Bacon was born in Dublin Ireland, he received no formal training in the arts. He was renowned for his massive, distorted, fleshy objects which symbolize the evils of the human condition.  He was a man who lived a life where nothing in particular interested him.  Over all, his paintings depict the isolation of the subjects from the world around them, much like Bacon's reality..

La Vie

Artist: Pablo Picasso
date: 1903
Size: 2 meters tall

Picasso painted this piece during his blue period (hence the colors).  The setting of the painting is in Picasso's studio.  The man in the painting is none other then Carlos Casagemas, one of Picasso's good friends who killed himself when denied by a lover.  Picasso never gave his own interpretation of the painting.