Difficult Painting Assignment

I believe that an artist, regardless of what kind of medium used, has to have the ability to convey his true feelings and emotions ,to share his moment

and to connect with the viewer as if they had the same feelings or as if they could read each other minds which is one of the reasons that I really don’t enjoy abstract.

I just can’t understand, no matter how the artist justifies his work. I just can’t connect. And speaking of conveying ideas, I have a very challenging painting assignment this week that is to paint something that I consider ugly,chocking, unspeakable, anything that I think that could express a bad side of painting.

As I was flipping pages on my Art Book I came across with one ,that I personally would never hang on my wall: is a 1953 version of Diegos’ Velasquez, Portrait of Innocent X, by Francis Bacon called Study after Portrait of Innocent X.

He portrayed the Pope, with a screaming look, opened mouth, with black and purple colors on the background and the pope seems to be chained at the chair, that looks like an electric chock execution chair, but at the same time he looks like he is floating. I could go on with the whole formal analysis but still would describe how disturbing his paint is. I attached to give the viewer an idea.

By looking at it, you might understand how difficult is to find an subject that would surpass Francis Bacon’s paint.

Well, good luck to me.