#post war artist

[hey-its-sybarite]

Symbolism & Foreshadowing: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) by Francis Bacon

Bacon had painted for years before he painted the very work displayed here in the show. After painting this work, he then insisted that none of his other previous works counted, and that this triptych should be considered his origin story. He tried to rewrite his own history. Art critics mostly let him get away with it too.

Very interesting that they have this work, the first “true” work in the artist’s own revisionist history of his own life. This artist is famous for paintings in series but the choice of a triptych (3) than any other number is suggestive. It’s a triptych of living figures, too.

The figures are inspired in part by the Furies, who would (either as a function of revenge or justice) brutally kill transgressive murderers for crimes such as matricide and patricide.

Other fun facts about Bacon:

- gay, and went from being the younger, dominated partner to being the older and more dominant partner

- Irish

- history of substance abuse

- obsessed with painting mouths

- people would call his work horror, but he couldn’t understand why

- once got such a bad crush (his word) on a painting that he couldn’t bring himself to visit it in person

- canonically attracted to his own father

[timbit-robin-art]

Currently watching someone grind for WR speedrun with the Lego Star Wars saga.

[martyfive]

i’ve been messing around the idea of luke and leia growing up together and then palpatine dinluke somehow returned

alas no one is perfect so here we go again

[rowanmeierotto]

Fury Road sketch dump

[anakinandobiwan]

i like to think theyd get their happy ending, too

[collophora]

Do yourself a favor and go read the entire fanfic work of @fanfoolishness

(In order: Under sun and shade, Blind Side, and Breathless (patching up is one of my fav too, I just had no cool sketch idea for it)

[ominouspuff]

Memories

[milkywayes]

■■■■ Shepard / earthborn / sole survivor / soldier. lovingly annotated.

scar refs (censored nsfw) under the cut >:) since I drew it and all.

[misstoodles-doodles]

Safe & Sound 💙

I just really wanted someone to give Echo a blanket so why not let it be Rex

Closeups T-T:

Bonus Doodle:

[teasodium]

happy May the 4th !

Also fuck Mark Hamill n anyone else who doesn't support 🍉

[fonmythenmetz]

(based on this post)

[yukipri]

Cody & Obi-Wan

The piece I drew last year for the @thecodywanzine !

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[krasnyel]

where do i belong?

[pond-eringstuff]

Hey does anyone else remember Karna can take the faces of other people? Me neither

[aaeeart]

(commission info)

was trying something new with this one- anyway, another Kanan to satisfy the brainworm

[sunlit-mess]

silly