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September 01, 2005
1952: Hampstead Heath: Logic Of Sensation
Encourage and submit to incidental sensory resonances, oblique currents between singular visual intensities; confidence beyond sense in the logic of the visual, in its undeniable 'coincidences'. Making these sequences of visual imagination irresistable and contagious. Mechanisms: all machines that loosen the hold of signification over perception, in favour of visual haecceity. Drink; darkness; experiments with uncontrolled paint; juxtaposition of partial images; the camera. A methodology that explains why the world is haunted by gripping, sudden tributes to the painting of Francis Bacon.
Hampstead Heath
from Marius Maxwell's Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa (1924)
Worked image from Maxwell's book, found in Bacon's studio
Van Gogh: Landscape near Auvers
Figure in a Landscape, 1952
Man Kneeling in Grass, 1952
Landscape after Van Gogh, 1952
(and parenthetically:
Bill Brandt: Francis Bacon on Hampstead Heath
)
Posted by robin at September 1, 2005 02:00 PM