Appear with meatus

Figure with meatus is a work of Francis Bacon of 1954.

" The table changes during its réalisation" we explains Bacon. For this work the artist made neither draft nor outline: however, it follows a model since it begins again, the portrait of the Pape Innocent X of Velasquez. Bacon realizes between 1950 and 1965 a series of forty five tables while working starting from this portrait.

The pope seems isolated in this table accentuated by the black zone and the narrow formwork in which the pope is.

The cry of the pope is not without pointing out the cry of Munch (1893); some will see there an allusion to the cry of the nurse in film of Sergueï Eisenstein the Battleship Potemkine (1925).

The very expressive art of Bacon calls with an interpretation symbolic system; the open mouth evokes a wound, and the silhouette isolated from the pope brings back to us to a pessimism of the distressed man, lost, vis-a-vis the horrors of our time. Dominating the Pope one can see two ox parts.

Here it is not any more Velasquez which is emphasized but Rembrandt or like Chaïm Soutine.

The scene of the slaughter-house and morbid wake up in bacon a feeling of repulsion and also of fascination. The symbol of death is represented by the combination of the meat and the pope which make together a metaphor of loneliness and nihilism in relation to the representing of dead God Zarathoustra of Nietzsche. The two halves of ox can evoke wings of angels…

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