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Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.
The diarist describes a conversation in the presence of the queen between various famous Elizabethans during which one of the company passes gas: "In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore." The Queen asks about the source and receives various replies.
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Baron Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
Bacon did not [1] realise his original intention to paint a large crucifixion scene and place the figures at the foot of the cross. [ 2 ] The Three Studies are generally considered Bacon's first mature piece; [ 3 ] he regarded his works before the triptych as irrelevant, and throughout his life tried to suppress their appearance on the art market.
The Latin was coined by Sir Francis Bacon in his Novum Organum—one of the earliest treatises arguing the case for the logic and method of modern science. Bacon described them as "Idols which have immigrated into men's minds from the various dogmas of philosophies, and also from wrong laws of demonstration." He named them Idols of the Theater ...
Here, Deleuze remarks in the final preface of Francis Bacon that Bacon's art is "of a very special violence." [4]: x In saying this, he analyses the content of Bacon's paintings set on fields of color with little visual depth that make "use of spectacles of horror, crucifixions, prostheses and mutilations, monsters." [6]
[3] Coleridge held that Bacon's view was that the secrets of nature, the inner essence that Bacon termed natura naturans, required a different "mode of knowing" from the intellect, but required a knowing that was "participative in its essence" and "above the ordinary human consciousness, a super-conscious mind." Here Coleridge refers to Bacon's ...
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