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| Screaming Pope Painting By Francis Bacon |
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🌹 Recently, I came to acclaim this painting by which Francis Bacon( 1909~1992, Ireland) painted. I am viewing this artwork, not only that, trying to understand his philosophy, although I cannot know his entire life and his whole artwork to the bone...
It was known that he taught himself how to paint, and then after twenty years, he held a private exhibition. In the meantime, he designed his grotesque and deformative art style, which seems provocative, abstract, philosophical, disobedient, antiformalistic, unconventional, sarcastic, exceptional, straightforward, and raw... etc. Nevertheless, his paintings are ironically popular towards modern art called postmodernism.
It was known that he taught himself how to paint, and then after twenty years, he held a private exhibition. In the meantime, he designed his grotesque and deformative art style, which seems provocative, abstract, philosophical, disobedient, antiformalistic, unconventional, sarcastic, exceptional, straightforward, and raw... etc. Nevertheless, his paintings are ironically popular towards modern art called postmodernism.
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| Francis Bacon |
Having said that, back then his paintings were not familiar to audiences so that he was bitterly vilified by themã…¡who would really acclaim that kind of grotesque or monstrous genre? Most likely not many. Furthermore, he seems to paint that kind of paintings willfully, mocking the general, the conventional, world's ethos, especially the circle of religion. At the outset, his paintings were not ace-high, but he enjoyed popularity as a successful artist in the end.
In fact, this deformed painting titled "Study After Velazquez's Portrait Of Pope Innocent X" was derived from the original painting that Diego Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599~1660) painted based on the realistic figure of the Pope. But this painting has become known as Francis Bacon's "Screaming Pope" as well. In other words, Francis Bacon grotesquely deformed the original figure of the solemn and charismatic Holy Father as the genre of expressionism, which means that Francis Bacon seems to mirror his personal mentality, which looks like his deep-rooted antagonism against popes or Catholicism or the ethos of religions, on the canvas. Viewers will feel the overpowering aura of this painting that Francis Bacon radiated his aspiration on the canvas this way.
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| Study After Velazquez's Portrait Of Pope Innocent X |
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| The Pope of Innocentius X In the Vatican Painging By Diego Velazquez 1650 |
According to rumor, Francis Bacon seems to have come under severe censure one way or other by the doctrine of Catholicism popes( or the clergy) strictly stands up for. However, most likely most people may already know that Catholic priests who have to be unmarried men have been committing sexual crimes against children or have been enjoying intercourse with same-sex priests as gays. According to gossip, Francis Bacon was also gay... that is why he depicted the pope in this grotesque way. Francis Bacon would have wanted to expose their sins and would desperately have desired popes(or the clergy) to perish in hell where the fire and brimstones are simmering endlessly that is the cruel depiction the Bible says. What a cruel thing it is! That is the Bible...
This painting "Screaming Pope" draws me into imagining the unutterable dread of how fearful religious hypocrisy is. The clergy who have brainwashed tons and tons of people as a means of religion and who have scooped up money therewith and who have regarded themselves as the chosen of God might be punished like this painting. Because they are none other than wolves in sheep's clothing.
In that respect, Francis Bacon transformed the pope's reddish silk cloak that might have implied "the Atonement of Christ" into " the violet cape." It might connote power, wealth, fame, and throne...etc. of religious leaders. Because usually, violet is symbolic of that kind of crown...
Plus the rough and straight brushstrokes seem to maximize tension and fear. The gaping mouth of the pope was shown up the utmost scare of death that looks like a dark hell gate!
Most likely Francis Bacon would have portrayed, devastatingly isolating the pope, hence viewers' eyes are eaten up with the overpowering aura... That pope is being thrown into "the gaping door of death", the bottomless pit, like a condemned criminal who is only waiting for the utmost fear of death by hanging. Likewise, that chair will fall into the bottomless pit with the pope's last scream.. the last scream. I'm viewing this uncanny and grotesque painting with fear and tension...
In one sense, each person's life in this world might well be inequitable, yet "death" is only fair to every person, so our lives may be impartial.
Plus the rough and straight brushstrokes seem to maximize tension and fear. The gaping mouth of the pope was shown up the utmost scare of death that looks like a dark hell gate!
Most likely Francis Bacon would have portrayed, devastatingly isolating the pope, hence viewers' eyes are eaten up with the overpowering aura... That pope is being thrown into "the gaping door of death", the bottomless pit, like a condemned criminal who is only waiting for the utmost fear of death by hanging. Likewise, that chair will fall into the bottomless pit with the pope's last scream.. the last scream. I'm viewing this uncanny and grotesque painting with fear and tension...
In one sense, each person's life in this world might well be inequitable, yet "death" is only fair to every person, so our lives may be impartial.
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