Francis bacon biography video walt disney world

Here’s the opening paragraph of John Berger’s “Francis Bacon and Walt Disney,” an essay originally published in New Society and recently reprinted, sans title, in the new anthology, Portraits: John Berger on Artists(Verso Books, 2015):

A blood-stained figure on a bed.

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Francis Bacon was a Dublin-born, British figurative painter - best known for his bleak, raw and emotional interpretations of the human condition.

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A carcase with splints on it. A man on a chair smoking. One walks past his paintings as if through some gigantic institution. A man on a chair turning.

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A man holding a razor. A man shitting.

The essay begins abruptly, describing Bacon’s work—the equivalent of a cold openin tv or film. The six staccato noun phrases, punctuated as sentences, suggest that this is raw, unprocessed data.

The sole complete sentence falls precisely in the middle of the paragraph, backing off for a moment from specifics to offer a somewhat hazy generalization.

Berger takes what you might call an inductive approach to art criticism,