Word: foetuses
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...glances; in search of stability, I did the same. My chosen spectacle was a scalding, large picture of the sea. Huge splashes of thick blue paint covered the canvas, rearing out in small pinnacles, and returning into piquant troughs. My expression of bewilderment drew the shop owner--a frail foetus by appearance, in fact a middle-aged man--who collected his phlegm with a unappealing gurgle...
...have it in red?" I pondered aloud. The foetus took affront, proclaimed it a unique work, and left me to examine the wide range of sculpted animal droppings on offer...
When it comes to bizarre horrors, though, there is no place like home. Harriet's fifth pregnancy disrupts the insular domestic bliss: "David saw her sitting at the kitchen table, head in her hands, muttering that this new foetus was poisoning her." Harriet complains to her doctor, but he refuses to see anything wrong: "He made the usual tests, and said, 'It's large for five months, but not abnormally so.' " After long agony, the child is born. Seeing him for the first time, the mother says, "He's like a troll, or a goblin or something." Harriet names...
...Foetus Crouch. Bacon, of course, makes no bones about the fact that the obsessive subject of his paintings is homosexual despair. He argues, however, that the despair he has observed among heterosexuals amounts to more or less the same thing. Certainly the horror and fascination with which some viewers respond to his works seem to support his contention...
...hatred and hostility in Bacon's vision, but of late it seems to be mellowing. Nothing in his current show comes near to matching the insane intensity of his screaming popes of 1949-53. A study of three male bodies, to be sure, shows one crouched like a foetus and another with his leg in a splint, but the third, who dangles apelike from a pole, has an amiable if freakish mien. A woman lounging in a deck chair turns a face wreathed in a hideous grimace-yet, on second glance, it is obviously nothing more than the grin...