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“I adopt the cause of the colour oppressed by the line” “I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars” – Yves Klein “There are certainly many ambiguities within the […]

Dr Ritz said that such “indirect” dark matter detections in far-flung parts of the cosmos could complement the kind of searches for never-before-seen particles that are going on at facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider. In fact, the motions of charged particles in extreme magnetic fields that give rise to many of the gamma […]

In a way, it [art] is worse than nothing, because it means nothing and nonetheless exists, providing itself with all the right reasons to exist. Jean Baudrillard – The Conspiracy of Art Via

Without realizing it, the organist, Pistorius, had given me my first lesson when I had lain beside him in front of the fire on the floor of his hermit’s room. Staring into the fire had done me good; it had strengthened and confirmed certain predispositions which I had always possessed but never cultivated. Gradually I […]

Francis liked the colour of blood; this was his own justification for his morbid subject matter. ‘You’ve only got to go into a butcher’s shop like Harrods Food Hall,’ he said. It was typically Baconian that he saw it in the context of Harrods. He continued: ‘It’s nothing to do with mortality but it’s to […]

From LWT South Bank Show on Francis Bacon, interviewed by Melvyn Bragg. FB: I do believe that today, or you could say modern man, wants a sensation, really, without the boredom of it’s conveyance, or to cut down conveyance as far as possible, so that you just give over the sensation. —————————————– FB: You can’t […]