Abstract
A neurological disorder presumably underlies painter Francis Bacon distorted world depiction.
Highlights
Edited by: Baingio Pinna, University of Sassari, Italy Reviewed by: Claus-Christian Carbon, University of Bamberg, Germany Simone Gori, University of Padua, Italy
We read with interest the remarkable paper by Zeki and Ishizu (2013), on Francis Bacon’s subverted representation of the body
We wish to share the results of an observation we recently made on Bacon’s depicted deformities (Safran et al, 2012, ARVO poster,) that led us to consider Bacon’s paintings to be the reflexion of a rare central perception disorder called dysmorphopsia (Kölmel, 1993)
Summary
Edited by: Baingio Pinna, University of Sassari, Italy Reviewed by: Claus-Christian Carbon, University of Bamberg, Germany Simone Gori, University of Padua, Italy. We wish to share the results of an observation we recently made on Bacon’s depicted deformities (Safran et al, 2012, ARVO poster,) that led us to consider Bacon’s paintings to be the reflexion of a rare central perception disorder called dysmorphopsia (Kölmel, 1993) (see Figure 1). This conclusion was supported by Bacon’s own detailed description of a perceptual phenomenon of dynamic distortion, progressively changing in magnitude and pattern, which he consistently experienced upon steady fixation.
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