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Bacon’s Study is largely inspired by Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X but it also includes ideas from other parts of Bacon’s life and experiences When Bacon was just a young man, he went to the cinema and saw a film called Battleship Potemkin , a silent film from 1925

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that size And, while most of Bacon’s 50 Pope paintings are inspired by Velasquez, only nine relate to the incumbent Pope, Pius X11 Bacon had a photograph of Pius being carried on his throne through St Peter’s pinned to his studio wall next to images of wartime dictators

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While Bacon used Velasquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X as his starting point, we can observe many differences from the original portrait which Velázquez undertook in 1650 whilst visiting Italy from his native Spain Velázquez’s likeness of the Holy Father depicts the head of the Catholic Church clothed

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Although Bacon denied any comments about his piece to be blasphemous, he said that the artwork was a homage to the original work by Velazquez fused with emotions from his “nervous system” (Farr 8; Abrams 8) Bacon stated that his work was “an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual

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selles d’Avignon, Ernst’s Elephant of Celebes, or Bacon’s Study after Velasquez’s´ Portrait of Pope Innocent X, employ structures deeply rooted in the western tra-dition as grotesque The grotesque ﬁgures prominently in romantic, symbolist, expressionist, primitivist, realist, and surrealist vocabularies, but it also plays a

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Feb 20, 2011 · GRADE 6: Maylin Bacon Velasquez, Heidi Barajas Pinones, Cameron Barker, Megan Benton, Penny Brewer, Alexandria