Bacon & the Pope

This video looks at a series that emerged from the series of 'Heads' which Francis Bacon painted shortly after the Second World War, and which developed into the series of paintings responding to photographs of Diego Velazquez's 'Portrait of Pope Innocent X'. The video looks at Bacon's postmodernity with regards his surrealist roots, with his damage to images both as a recognition of their untrustworthiness and yet as a process by which they could carry expression.