The Becoming-animal. Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy applied on Francis Bacon’s painting.
Abstract
This text wants to expose the Gilles Deleuze’s concept of becoming-animal in Francis Bacon’s art. This peculiar passage, that never ends and never begins, is a special condition of human being, something that pass through is own body and express itself as a deformation. We will analyze the philosophical language that Deleuze uses to describe this art, something that is made of sensation and not of imitation. The stranger, the intruder is someone who seems to live within the characters that inhabit Bacon’s paintings; soon we will discover that, as per the philosopher’s theory, what we only can see is an indiscernibility zone, that is the sensation lived between man and animal.
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