Still from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film ‘The Battleship Potemkin’.
(The image depicts the panic of a wounded nurse whose smashed pince-nez spectacles are splayed across her blood stained face. This fearful image held a fascination for Bacon who always kept a copy of it in his studio. It encapsulates his philosophy, ‘Painting is the pattern of one’s own nervous system being projected on canvas’).
Reblogged from It # π.
October 26, 2009, 3:32pm
