"We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death. - bacon"
My intrest in this painting is how bacon showed the fear and terror through the scream of the pope, the fear of living and of death is shown through the pope's scream and this could be shown as a symbol of fear to represent both.Bacon was always haunted by velazquez pope he never saw the origanel painting, he imposed a horrific theme onto the pope with dark shades of colour and sharp yellow lines, the figure was distorted and twisted and bacon created a not so innocent pope.
Bacon worked from many images to create a series of screaming pope paintings. he took a still image of the nurse from the film "Battleship potemkin" and morphed that image of her screaming into the face of velazquez's pope.
1:49 - image of the nurse screaming.
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