An artist that I admire

Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon it was an Irish-born British figurative painter. It's well known for the deformations he introduced on the people he painted and the use of out-of-context references.
I admire him because he was so dedicated to his work and he made incredible pieces of art. Bacon truly revived painting when a lot of people said it was dead. He represented on the canvas the most deep feelings of the human being (also the aggressiveness of his own sexual life). I also like his technique: how he used the brush-stroke, the relationship between the parts with a lot of oil and the parts with just a few of it, the composition was simple and effective, the synthesis for certain parts it was very effective too. It's also important to consider the relation of Bacon and the art history (Velázquez and his portrait of Inocencio X, the Furies, the references to Rembrandt, etc) and how he used the photographs as reference. He transformed the oil into flesh (suck that Jesus).
I think these and other things could be good reasons to consider him an interesting artist, but I think you have to have the experience of see and analyze his work and judge for yourself, give it a try. 

One of my favorites: Seated figure 1974