{"id":685,"date":"2018-03-06T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T18:09:24","slug":"brush-with-peril-francis-bacon-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/685","title":{"rendered":"“Brush with Peril” Francis Bacon covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s my son and I with Francis Bacon’s Figure With Meat<\/em> (1954). It belongs to the\u00a0The Art Institute of Chicago<\/a>, IL, but it was on display at the\u00a0Getty Museum<\/a>\u00a0when I traveled to Los Angeles in September 2016.<\/p>\n

As I write this, I think this is the only Pope painting by\u00a0Francis Bacon<\/a>\u00a0that I’ve ever seen face-to-face. I LOVE his pope paintings, and was totally struck by them when I first learned about them during my college education.<\/p>\n

Learning about art like this was a large part of what got me going on my (arguably) “latest” project, \u201cBrush with Peril,\u201d my upcoming espionage-style graphic novel in which the characters and settings are famous museum masterworks turned into masked spies and villains. \u00a0High brow art meets low brow pop culture \u2013 a round peg forced into the square hole of Mexican standoffs, fist fights, and car chases.\u00a0 The juxtapositions create a dialogue about the meanings and status of art, and our perceptions of it as a culture.<\/p>\n

The first concept of this project \u2013 combining famous art and adventure – developed around 2005, but the SPY idea hit me in 2009, and that\u2019s when I immediately jumped in and began the project in earnest.<\/p>\n

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Here are two \u201cfirst issue\u201d covers \u2013 they\u2019re actually the same image, with one zoomed in tighter on the face.\u00a0 I drew it\/them in 2014.\u00a0 Initially, I had designed a different cover image, but I was never crazy about it.\u00a0 I drew this\/these after conceiving a \u201cclose up on a face from a famous painting\u201d cover theme. Colors by Gerry Chow.<\/p>\n

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These covers are after a detail of Francis Bacon<\/a>\u00a0, Study After Vel\u00e1squez’s Portrait Of Pope Innocent X<\/em> (1953), Des Moines Art Center, Iowa.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please visit my Patreon page<\/a> to check out more of my spy comic, Brush with Peril,<\/em> and other projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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As I write this, I think this is the only Pope painting by\u00a0Francis Bacon\u00a0that I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brush-with-peril"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"cwisnia","author_link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/author\/cwisnia"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"      Here’s my son and I with Francis Bacon’s Figure With Meat (1954). 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