Rouge et Noir a Badem Ciflik

"I haven't found another subject so far that has been as helpful for covering certain areas of human feeling and behavior. Perhaps it is only because so many people have worked on this particular theme that it has created his armature - I can't think of a better way of saying it - on which one can operate all types of level of feeling." (1966)

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

For the most intimate existential sensitivity of Francis Bacon
, love is a struggle, sexual coupling is a struggle, and in its formal expression, the figure is a struggle, between opposing elements.

Yup, it is him and his lover, but the act of painting is carried out, in consequence of the original impulse received from an indistinct comples of vital sensations. It's so much more than just sex between two men.

Note, the whiteness of the sheet, the anthracite black of the backround, the blending of whites, grays and bluish tints on the bodies.

The coupling, the exasperated desire of the anormous act are rendered by the bluish gray magma of the bodies, the blurred anatomical parts and the faces crushed by a fleeting sensation, fixed in tragic expression, trapped in the tangle of vitality and......death!!!!!!!!!

An incarnate figure appears at fitful intervals, with its plasticity partially blurred by washed out areas or overwhelmed by suddenly violent strokes whose gestural quality gains the upper hand over conventional, classic equilibrium. BUT, within the dark, nearly monochromatic tones, that characterize this phase, Crouching Nude on Rail, introduces an eruption of blue that completely upsets the tonal atmosphere at the time.