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Francis Bacon Triptych Francis Bacon Art Gallery of South Australia until 2 April 2006  Admittedly,
I have not seen the Adelaide Festival's Three Furies: Scenes From
The Life Of Francis Bacon, playing at the Dunstan Playhouse, which
Bacon's masterpiece Triptych is said to complement. However, as the
three panel work hangs in Gallery 16 of the Art Gallery of South Australia,
its impact as a stand-alone piece is extremely strong. In a considered
shift away from traditional representations of 'the figure' that often
draw on narrative, Bacon distorts and fragments his subject matter
in order to appeal to viewer's more emotional sensibilities of interpretation,
rather than the rational way in which an image is usually analysed.
Here Bacon has abstracted his figure - model and partner George Dyer
- in a manner that engages viewers in ideas of solitude and vulnerability
that are a result of our human condition.  |
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