6 Matching Annotations
- Feb 2018
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blogs.baruch.cuny.edu blogs.baruch.cuny.edu
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a real seer who looked at the world would notice it to be fairly violent—not violent as narrative surface but somehow violently composed underneath the surface, having violence as its essence.
I am wondering if this view of life is conditioned to the time, when Bacon lived or it had to do with his personal experiences ?
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A yes or no question forbids a word to stop itself.
A yes or no question deprives the words from being undefined or misunderstood.
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“The brutality of fact”
The translation of reality, with all its cruelty .
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Not just in his use of color but in the whole strategy of his compositions, he wants to make us see something we don’t yet have eyes fo
This idiom is used in order to explain that we are not always able to see the true essence of things, despite the clarity, with which we see them.
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By facts he doesn’t mean to make a copy of the subject as a photograph would but rather to create a sensible form that will translate directly to your nervous system the same sensation as the subject.
Bacon uses his art in order to change the conventional understanding of different concepts and illustrates them in their true nature.
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ts components are simple yet it stays foreign
Although the elements of the sentence are simple, we cannot fully understand, define or use it.
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