Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to paint the track left by human beings-like the slime left by snails." Francis Bacon says this evenly, not trying to shock, but not joking either. His canvases seem to many to be ghastly views into torment,half-decomposed portraits of things better left unpictured. But no one denies their power: put up last week in a big show at the Tate Gallery, they hit London like a slap in the face with a hunk of raw meat...
...been as much influenced by the here and now of the photograph as by anything else. War, terrorism, gory accidents-these fleeting instants of agony fascinate Bacon. His torn and dislocated figures often seem about to vanish or disintegrate. In a Bacon painting, the body is temporary; only the torment remains...
...which was printed last February, has in it almost all the protests levelled against the arts at Harvard. I've heard them every day for the last four years, spoken either by friends, strangers, or myself. These pro are a constant presence. They fill the air, either as a torment, an annoyance, or high praise, depending on the season and one's mood. Now, on the eve of my leaving, the question arises: what is it all about? What specifically is the raison d'etre of the advocate? Do its premises differ from those of this letter? What...
Bergman has come a long way from Torment, his first film, in which he handled an adolescent's agony with human feeling, but occasional cliches. Unfortunately, he has also come far from the skill and insight of Wild Strawberries. The bizarre has become the sententious and powerful has become the senseless. I am told that he has called Through a Glass Darkly his "Opus One", and relegated his earlier efforts to the status of preludes...
Dean Monro, a member of the Committee, said there was a "conflict of two righteous principles." Such a situation "creates the very difficult decisions that torment good people...