Who was Francis Bacon inspired by when creating a series of painting starting in 1957 ?
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 " .