Showing posts with label Expressionism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Expressionism. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Friday, February 5, 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Born today...Francis Bacon, October 28, 1909, Dublin, Ireland
Head I oil on board 1948
photo @Alastair Thain 1987
''human life is concentrated bestially in the mouth’' ,
Georges Bataille, ‘La Bouche’, Documents, Paris 1930
Damp, jaggèd, like an old man’s mouth drivelling, beyond repair,
Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark
T. S. Eliot Ash Wednesday (1930)
‘'the forces of the cosmos confronting an intergalactic traveller immobile in his capsule’'
Deleuze on Bacons Heads series
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery” - Francis Bacon
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)