Thursday, 12 March 2015

From Bacon to Building

Where to start? Start at the beginning, but then if you are starting something you must already be at the beginning, so why worry about where to start?  What's important is that you are starting, that you have started something, that you have put idea into action, at least that's what I'm telling myself right now.
Writing for me is important.  It is a way to assess and evaluate my thoughts, which without the act of writing never develop further than the chaotic transient.  So now, after completing my thesis I have come to the realization that despite my unwillingness to sit, think, and write, I am capable of a deeper form of communication, through writing, than my often unfocused daily conversations would imply.
So without any further speculation I begin at the beginning, at the start, with Bacon, Francis Bacon.

Site:  Tate Britain  Date: 09/03/15
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixtion  1944
My intention for my visit was to find  inspiration to kick start my writing and with that in mind I start with Francis Bacon's triptych, 'Three Studies for the Base of a Crucifixion'  c.1944, a personal favourite in The Tate's permanent collection, however I do not intend this to be a review / critique on every famous piece of art out there but rather a vessel for connecting my research and interests with my own artistic practice.
How to connect a personal favourite with my own practice? Especially when the form of my own practice is still in the process of becoming? I could go into the context and intention of Bacon's triptych, but this will only serve to broaden and parade my knowledge of fact and speculation and would not inform the reader of anything new or original about Bacon that cannot already be read elsewhere.  So I intend to review by comparison, with something that is closer to the form of my becoming practice, also to be found in The Tate, in one of their temporary exhibits:

1949-1955: Hunstanton School and the Photography of Life and Art.

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