>>5738054He was abusive as well. His relationships were mutually abusive. With the murder he made a painting of his dead boyfriend in a toilet two days after his corpse was found. He told the hotel manager of their room not to notify authorities of his boyfriend's corpse because he had an art show. Bacon was a known sadomasochist mostly because of his abusive childhood which made him an abusive person in turn and developed his preference for abusive boyfriends.
>>5738049Yeah his paintings were beloved but because of the novelty. No one actually liked him as person but rather like how normies will like an artist mostly because of their trauma and how that is fascinating to them. People liked Bacon because he came from a dark life and his art reflected that trouble which may be foreign or interesting to many.