Question: Who was Francis Bacon inspired by when creating a series of painting starting in 1957?
About the article "Vincent van Gogh", section "Influence".

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Bacon spent late 1926 in London, with an allowance of £3 a week from his mother's trust fund, living on his instincts, 'drifting', and reading Nietzsche.
When he was broke, Bacon found that by the expedient of rent-dodging and petty theft, he could manage a reasonable economy.
To supplement his income, he briefly tried his hand at domestic service, but although he enjoyed cooking, he became bored and resigned.
He was sacked from a telephone answering position at a shop selling women's clothes in Poland Street, Soho, after writing a poison pen letter to the owner.
Bacon found himself drifting through London's homosexual underworld.
Early on he was aware that he was able to attract a certain type of rich man, something he was quick to take advantage of, having developed a taste for good food and wine.
One was a relative of Winnie, another breeder of racehorses, Harcourt-Smith, who was renowned for his manliness.
Bacon claimed his father had asked this "uncle" to take him 'in-hand' and 'make a man of him'.
Francis had a difficult relationship with his father, once admitting to being sexually attracted to him.
In 1927, Bacon was taken by Harcourt-Smith to the opulent, decadent, "wide open" Berlin of the Weimar Republic, where they stayed together at the Hotel Adlon.
Bacon likely saw Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", and Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" which he credits as the key catalysts on his own artistic imagination.
Bacon spent two months in Berlin, though Harcourt-Smith left after one – "He soon got tired of me, of course, and went off with a woman ...
I didn't really know what to do, so I hung on for a while, and then, since I'd managed to keep a bit of money, I decided to go to Paris."
Bacon then spent the next year and a half in Paris.
He met Yvonne Bocquentin, pianist and connoisseur, at the opening of an exhibition.
Aware of his own need to learn French, Bacon lived for three months with Madame Bocquentin and her family at their house near Chantilly.
He travelled into Paris to visit the city's art galleries.
At the Château de Chantilly (Musée Condé) he saw Nicolas Poussin's "Massacre of the Innocents", a painting which he often referred to in his own later work.
From Chantilly, he went to an exhibition that inspired him to take up painting.
His visit to a 1927 exhibition of 106 drawings by Picasso at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg in Paris, aroused his artistic interest, and he took the train into Paris five or more times a week to see shows and art exhibitions.
Bacon saw Abel Gance's epic silent film "Napoléon" at the Paris Opéra when it premièred in April 1927.
From the autumn of 1927, Bacon stayed at the Paris Hôtel Delambre in Montparnasse. 
Second Version of Triptych 1944 is a 1988 triptych painted by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon.
It is a reworking of "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion", 1944, Bacon's most widely known triptych, and the one which established his reputation as England's foremost post-war painters.
Bacon often painted second versions of his major paintings, including "Painting (1946)", which he reworked in 1971 when the original became too fragile to transport to exhibitions.
In 1988, Bacon completed this near copy of the "Three Studies".
At 78 × 58 inches, this second version is over twice the size of the original, while the orange background has been replaced by a blood-red hue.
His reason for creating this rework remain unclear, although Bacon did say to Richard Cook that he "always wanted to make a larger version of the first Studies...
I thought it could come off, but I think the first is better.
I would have had to use the orange again so as to give a shock, that which red dissolves.
But the tedium of doing it perhaps dissuaded me, because mixing that orange with pastel and then crushing it was an enormous job.
"The figures occupy a proportionally smaller space on the canvas than in the 1944 version, a presentation that, according to the Tate Gallery's catalogue, "plungthem into a deep void".
Critical opinion was mixed and the triptych drew criticism from those who felt that its more refined painting technique robbed the image of much of its power.
Denis Farr suggested that while the second version's larger scale gave it "a majestic quality which is highly effective", its svelte presentation lessened its shock value.
Critic Jonathan Meades felt that though the 1988 triptych was a more polished and painterly work, it lacked the rawness of the original. 
"Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" is a 1953 painting by the Irish artist Francis Bacon.
The work shows a distorted version of the "Portrait of Innocent X" painted by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in 1650.
The work is one of a series of over 45 variants of the Velázquez painting which Bacon executed throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.
The picture was described by Gilles Deleuze as an example of creative re-interpretation of the classical.
When asked why he was compelled to revisit the subject so often, Bacon replied that he had nothing against the Popes, that he merely sought "an excuse to use these colours, and you can't give ordinary clothes that purple colour without getting into a sort of false fauve manner.
"In Bacon's version of Velázquez's masterpiece, the Pope is shown screaming yet his voice is "silenced" by the enclosing drapes and dark rich colors.
The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.
The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent and appear to fall through the representation of the Pope's face. 
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According to an exhibition at Tate Britain, "His influence has forever changed our understanding and interpretation of the world, and can be found in many diverse fields, from Marcel Duchamp's painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" and countless works by Francis Bacon, to the blockbuster film "The Matrix" and Philip Glass's opera "The Photographer"."
Étienne-Jules Marey — recorded the first series of live action photos with a single camera by a method of chronophotography; influenced and was influenced by Muybridge's work Thomas Eakins — American artist who worked with and continued Muybridge's motion studies, and incorporated the findings into his own artwork William Dickson — credited as inventor of the motion picture camera Thomas Edison — developed and owned patents for motion picture cameras Marcel Duchamp — artist, painted "Nude Descending a Staircase, No.
2", inspired by multiple-exposure photography Harold Eugene Edgerton — pioneered stroboscopic and high speed photography and film, producing an Oscar-winning short movie and many striking photographic sequences Francis Bacon — painted from Muybridge photographs John Gaeta — used the principles of Muybridge photography to create the bullet time slow-motion technique of the 1999 movie "The Matrix".
Steven Pippin — so-called Young British Artist who converted a row of laundromat washing machines into sequential cameras in the style of Muybridge Wayne McGregor — UK choreographer collaborated with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and artist Mark Wallinger on a piece entitled "Undance", inspired by Muybridge's 'action verbs'