Untitled ( Pope ), 1950

Untitled ( Pope ), 1950

" I have deliberately tried to twist myself, but I have not gone far enough.
My paintings are, if you like, a record of this distortion. [...] I attempt to recreate a particular experience with a greater poignancy in the desire to live through it again with a different kind of intensity. at the same time I try to retain the greatest possible tension between the original and the recreated experience. And then there is always
the desire to make the game a little more complicated - to give the tradition a new twist ".

Francis Bacon