"I would like my pictures to look as if a human bing had passed between them, like a snail,leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events,as the snail leaves its slime."--FRANCIS BACON
Perhaps no artist of the 2oth century expressed in painting the tragedy of existence more realistically than Francis Bacon. This does not mean the dramatic force of an abstract condition of human life or the representation of something that might accidentally happen in one's personal life, but the inner and unrepresentable sense of individual and intimate existence. In Bacon, rendering the sense of existence inevitably provokes a violently tragic expression...
