Do you ever feel like you're stuck in a gay surrealist fantasy painting?

[Zylka]

Originally posted by molly bloom

That to me is the horror of a Bacon painting- eternal silence and screaming without sound, and infinite space in a paradoxically enclosed environment.

Exactly. As such, I see Bacon reitorating a concrete, blank hell which I have firmly believed in before having learned to read. At that level, there's only one answer I come up with - of eternal importance, but unapplicable in debating its description

The others have me firing and arranging the chaos of life in a horrible guilt trip of decadence, lies, facades and dreams begging for change. Something at the gates of hell, while you hopefully have time to evaluate the trillion piece puzzle to a tangling entity of contradictions

Bacons' works rage in an absolute, horror of non-existence, while the others start trillions of vicious fights in a candyland setting, giving you nothing to look back for, nothing of yourself to grasp - until it's resolved

[Zylka]

P.S Sartre is a filthy Frenchman who deserves only to be quoted on an old wall beside the local bidet you're puking in

[monolith94]

geez, Zylka, don't mince your words or anything!
that said, I think that absence can be very frightening. It's why insecure people feel the need to talk ALL the time, I think.

[Zylka]

What is "mincing" of vocabulary? Scrambling?

It's not like I'm SOBER OR ANYTHING *BAWWWWLLLL*

[monolith94]

it's like, don't be subtle or anything, sarcastic like...
oh **** it

[Zylka]

Ok but all I know is that we have to severely hurt MtG when he gets back on so get your words and accusations nice and minced

[Zylka]

Of course I'm sure no one would enjoy their own version of this, but doesn't it just seem like an inevitability? Bacon seems like a boring prophet of the damned more than anything else, there are no solutions to kill yourself over in his imagery - just the end of the story

[monolith94]

that seems like more of an attack on the church than a statement on the abyss

[Zylka]

A subconcious attack on the church, at best. It's a study of an older painting he had seen as a child which was essentially a catalyst in arriving at his version of the abyss (a little boy psycho tasted artistic terror on his own perceptions and it lingered). So many other works unhitched to an intitution are catalogued in his work

[Zylka]

I would have just set it on fire and moved on

[monolith94]

Hurrah! I was able to figure out what he was painting to some extent without ever taking an art histoy course! Gold star for me!!!

[molly bloom]

Bacon never saw the painting. He only ever saw a reproduction. Zylka's shallow logorrhoeic 'critiques' of Sartre and Bacon might be amusing if it weren't so incoherent and jejune- Zylka believed in a concrete blank hell before having learned to read! Golly gee, how grown up of you!

Or alternately, what a slow learner you were....

[Zylka]

OOOOOHHHH JEJUNE - WHEN DID THAT BECOME YOUR WORD OF THE DAY, BECAUSE YOU USED IT SO WELL!!@wer

[Zylka]

...and I suppose you knew of Hell before leaving the womb, you poor, educated thing. Should we give Molly the indignant flake of the month award?

[monolith94]

@ art history flames!