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...taste, the ghostly outlines of his Bauhaus-flavored interiors and steel-tube furnishings found their way into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his paintings. You detect them for the first time in the series of paintings he made from the great Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X, in which Bacon's flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury...
...Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for conflation, visual and psychological, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. From a 19th century photograph by Eadweard Muybridge he could take the squatting silhouette of a man and dissolve it within the outlines of a crouching boy attributed to Michelangelo. He could borrow the eyeglasses from a famous shot of a screaming nurse in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and perch them on a Pope's nose. In the same way, the meaning of his screaming Pontiff in Head VI fluctuates. Trapped...
...photos from the Pope's recent trip to France, click here...
...photos of Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Brazil here.) (See TIME's pictures of the week here...
What should we make, if anything, of the Saudi King Abdallah's visit to the Pope, and his sponsorship of an interfaith dialogue in Spain? Are these serious efforts to reach out and arrive at some sort of understanding, or are they merely cosmetic...