A portré destruálása
Destructing the portrait

Summary/Abstract: There is an enormous significance in Francis Bacon’s painting attached to the human body and the face in presence. However, their representation is a most difficult thing. The artist himself mentioned this difficulty in an interview with David Sylvester: „What I want to do is to distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance.” Bacon formulated the latest answer to the problem of the portrait in western art with the modulation of the flesh (Deleuze) in haptic space. His answer was „to deform people into appearance”.

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