/lit/ - Literature

>>19330906
p. s. for reasons not stated precisely, this particular painting is a sort of ftm code for a specific type of personality summed up in the thought cloud of the parody posted above.
>When asked why he was compelled to revisit Velázquez's Portrait again and again, Bacon replied that he had nothing against popes, but merely sought "an excuse to use these colours, and you can't give ordinary clothes that purple colour without getting into a sort of false fauve manner".[25] At the time Bacon was coming to terms with the death of a cold, disciplinarian father, his early, illicit sexual encounters, and a very destructive sadomasochistic approach to sex.
perhaps it pinpoints the clinging to unrelated aesthetics for unconventional or absurd reasons & Mistreatment both from others and yourself apart from the obvious "trapped and screaming" motif.
my own five cents is that the papal trone and vestments mirror the pedestal on which society puts women and the regals it adores them with.