Francis Bacon, the most important modernist painter in Britain in the 20th century, the anxiety and panic of human nature, the disease of the times, loneliness and hopelessness, the important thing is the mood, sometimes the mood is the expression of desire, and sometimes it is not.
"Real painters don't paint things as they actually are, but paint them according to how they feel about them," he said.
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