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Slipped Out of Register
The same face smeared and dragged out of register against a flat green-ochre field, one eye left disconcertingly sharp.
How this was made
This piece began with a photograph and a written instruction. Both are kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.
THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS
PROMPT
POSITIVE: Repaint this photograph as a Francis Bacon painting, c. 1968. Head and upper torso of a clothed young adult woman in a dark brown sleeveless top, set against a flat saturated empty field of dull green-ochre colour with a thin white geometric space-frame drawn around her; non-sexual, no nudity, no blood or gore, modest framing. The face is smeared, swept and dragged with a loaded brush and rag so the features twist and slip out of register, one side pulled into blur while an eye and the teeth remain disconcertingly sharp; the open smile distorted into an ambiguous grimace. Flesh in raw pinks, ochre, violet, cream, dull green and grey applied in thick sweeping curved strokes. Dark hair a heavy black-brown mass. Raw unprimed linen visible around the edges. Distorted, psychologically charged, existential, no background detail. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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