FRANCIS BACON

BODY AS EVENT OF FLESH

Bacon transforms the traditional portrait's stable human subject. The postwar figure becomes deformation, flesh, sensation, and de-identification.

BODY AS REPRESENTATION OF A PERSON → BODY AS EVENT OF FLESH

Bacon → flesh → de-identification → body as material → body art.

This is a visual and conceptual relation rather than a claim that Bacon directly produces body art. The figure is not simply a person represented badly; it is matter undergoing sensation and transformation.

Removal audit: without Bacon, the Brain loses a precise vocabulary for separating portraiture from the body's material event.