The Violent Focus of Francis Bacon 

This was outstanding. The phrase “guardrails for attention” stood out to me, and the overall emphasis on intentionally creating a self-referencing world that brings everything back to the work is so critical. The other phrase I loved was “a hermetically sealed pressure-cooker,” and I very much resonate with the idea of “engineering the smallest environment possible” to maintain a strong orbit around the vision. Great work, Justin, really great.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER , FRANCE IS BACON

That so right Justin... I have Asperger's it gives you intense focus to live inside my quantum superflat paintings Bacon is such a inspiration for starting my QUANTUM SUPERFLAT ART MOVEMENT... ❤much love from BIL Australasian outsider superflat artist NSW...

Please do more of these, Justin. This talk was wonderful.

if i wasnt constantly distracted i wouldnt have watched this video

Tapping into the natural robot I really am. Leaving behind the emotional

regarding the "thinking notes to himself" thing, I'm sure fiction writers (including myself, but I know many others) do something similar. When you write some let's say sad/pessimistic passage in the book or whatever you work on, you want to purposefully read something similar in your free time - to get your thinking right in this "sad way". I tend to read Bernhard, Beckett and some polish writers like Wojciech Gunia. It's also good to surround yourself with sad/pessimistic things, but you don't have to do it artificially. I'm also pretty sure the same thing works for actors. They tend to remember real-life events to get to the specific emotions, and to get their thinking in a with this specific emotion, and in effect - behave in a certain way they want to. But these Bacon's notes are like another level. Interesting stuff.

great video

Francis bacon painting process with tiktok voiceover

Fantastic talk 🥰

Glad to see you returning to a ~based philosophy-centric subject.

9:48 I disagree : in order to be seen and exposed, he had to get out of his world, and to get to his stature, he had to work with galerists and be civil etc. Yet, he kept his raw talent. Check art brut, these guys truly did not give a shit about the outside world : nobody knew about them until they were dead. What a shame ! But also shows that we should not fantasize that much the habits of Bacon. TO be tried, I agree, but let's keep this real

While I can certainly apply some of these insights profitably to my life this is definitely not the way I want to live my life. I wish to be present for it…

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