Woman Reclining, Sleeping (1901 – 1995)

Last update: 8th September 2024 The topic of this post is the pictorial depiction of the female figure reclining, or

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The painter Francis Bacon on Crucifixion

Introduction Crucifixion is the subject that attests to the fragility, the futility, the horror and at the utter impossibility of life. Live is

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Abyss – The Loss of the Face

“If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss will stare back at you” Friedrich Nietzsche …the face is

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Painting the Human Body and Flesh

Back in 1995 I visited an exhibition of the late period Degas in the National Gallery of London. Among the

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