Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms

By world.pulse on 23. May 2016.   Francis Bacon, P.U.L.S.E, Painting  

There is a Francis Bacon pope in Tate Liverpool that is barely a squeak from high camp. It shows the pontiff in sumptuous purple robes, raising his dainty little hands in a fit of girlish horror. It is a very strange addition to the long sequence of screaming popes; indeed this pontiff is not screaming […]