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Francis Bacon
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WARNING
The following presentation continues vulgar
language, scenes of horror and gratuitous
nudity (maybe). Viewer discretion is
advised.
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“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter—perfect in its bud as in its bloom—with no
reason to explain its presence—no mission to fulfill—a joy to the artist”.
James McNeill Whistler
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“In art, all who have done something other than their
predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is
they alone who are masters”.
Paul Gaugin
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Study from the Human Body (1949)
Study for Human Body (1991)
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Detail from Poussin’s The Massacre of the Innocents (1630-31)
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Figure Getting Out of Car (1943)
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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)
Alecto Megaera Tisiphone
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Picasso’s The Spanish Crucifixion (1930-34)
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Study after Velazquez'sPortrait of Pope Innocent X
(1953)
Study from Innocent X (1962)Study from Innocent X (1964)
Study from Innocent X (1962)
Velazquez’s Pope Innocent X (1650)
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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”. Oscar Wilde
“Old age is horrible and incurable”. Michel Leiris
“I know I’m just dead. I know I just become a skeleton. I just go back to the earth…We become once again the compost of the earth. That’s all there is. There’s nothing else to life”. Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon (1983)
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"I myself and the life I've lived happen to be more profoundly curious than my work. Then
sometimes, when I think about it, I'd prefer everything about my life
to blow up after I die and disappear".
Francis Bacon