It’s the first Elegantly Dressed Wednesday in quite a while, and we have – not a Baroque painter, or a Pope, or a tormented ex-furniture designer to thank, but a punk kid who argued with her art teacher.
The only truly heated argument I have ever had with an art history professor was about this [Painting I. 1946, oil on linen; click to see the picture] – she probably should have known better than to contend with a goth kid when it came to Francis Bacon. Obviously a member of the school of thought that believes any bleak painting done between 1935 and 1950 is about the horrors of war, she taught our class that “this is a painting about war.” When I respectfully pointed out that Bacon could have painted a work such as this at any point in his career (without even mentioning the bit about the chimpanzee), she replied (with a stare that suggested daggers), “It’s about WAR.“
Click the link to see how Damien Hirst comes into it.
And click here to see the writing on the (art collector’s) wall… Seriously, it’s almost kind of like Wm Blake…
(And by the way, when I categorise this as pseud’s corner, I don’t mean Bacon. Just click the link.)
