Figure with Meat
Francis Bacon (1954)
Francis Bacon’s Figure with Meat fuses a screaming pontiff with two flayed carcasses that hang like grotesque wings, locking power and flesh into the same dark box. Through <strong>cage-like lines</strong>, <strong>stage-lit isolation</strong>, and paint handled as <strong>raw meat</strong>, Bacon asserts a brutal equivalence: sanctity and sovereignty are only bodies destined to decay <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
