About other beautiful/ugly things
2. About Bacon’s influence
Love Below, The sad story of the dead monoblock and The she-wolf myth are images reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s paintings and pessimistic philosophies of life.
“I think of life as meaningless; but we give meaning during our own existence. We create certain attitudes, which give it meaning while we exist, though they in themselves are meaningless, really.” (Francis Bacon, 1975)
Bacon consistently illustrates men (or women) as a material being, with no interest on metaphysics (religion, gods, fate) or any supernatural explanation of existence. A man is a man of flesh and blood, and that is his object of interest: people doing what originally are daily activities, now being deformed, abstracted, made abnormal.
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