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Reptile Ruin Self Portrait (2000)
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Reptile Ruin Self Portrait (2000)
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Coming Apart Self Portrait (2000)
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"But often the things that seem the most exaggerated can be the most true." Marilyn Manson |
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Soggy
Slime Self Portrait (2000)
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Soaked Self Portrait (2000)
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Severed Self Portrait
(2000)
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"Painting
is the pattern of one's nervous system being projected on the
canvas" Francis Bacon
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Reclining Alien Self Portrait (2000)
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"There
is a kind of sensational image within the very, you could say,
structure of your being, which is not to do with a
mental image - when that image, through accident, begins to
form..."
Francis Bacon,
Interviews
with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester.
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Sliced Self Portrait
(2001)
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Shape Shifting Self
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Slither Self (2001)
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Allen Ginsberg on Francis Bacon's painting method:" He said he did it with a chance brush stroke that looked in the magic-a fortuitous thing that he couldn't predict or orchestrate". "I don't know if critics of literature are the idiots that critics of painting are in this country, because they're the biggest idiots that exist. They know absolutely fuck all about it to begin with. They've got no instinct about it, they've just got theories." Francis Bacon talking to Burroughs, Arena, BBC 1986. |
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Onto Drool (2000)
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Onto Ooze (2001)
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Onto Drool (2001)
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"Very
few people find their real instincts. Every now and then there's
an artist who does and who makes something new and actually
thickens the texture of life. But it's very rare you have to be
able to be really free to find yourself in that way, without any
moral or religious constraints. After all, life is nothing but a
series of sensations, so one may as well try and make oneself
extraordinary, extraordinary and brilliant, even if it means
becoming brilliant fool like me and having the kind of disastrous
life that i have had. That is it." Francis Bacon, Anatomy Of An Enigma by Michael
Peppiatt.
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