Thursday, 4 June 2009

Fulci / Bacon #2

Yesterday I was at a seminar on Francis Bacon, which produced another couple of connections to Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin:




Bacon's paintings, with their vivisected / meat forms




Lizard's dogs

Interestingly the lecturer also mentioned Bacon's interest in Bataille - someone whom I've often thought about Fulci's 'obscence' "stories of the eye" in relation to...

1 comments:

Filmscore said...

The first painting looks similar if not the same as the one that The Joker (Jack Nicholson) keeps his goons from destroying in the 1989 film "Batman."