October 2009
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7 October 2009
I’ve been researching the influence of Aeschylus and Eliot on the paintings of Francis Bacon today. The Eumenides (Furies) are prevalent. I see them in psychological terms - guilt, fear, our own personal demons. Bacon’s way of representing them as figural, colourless and horrifying conveys this. Another aspect of his approach to painting links into the themes of many of his...
“You have to abbreviate into intensity
Francis Bacon”