Abstract
Deleuze, in “Francis Bacon - Logic of sensation”, highlights three pictorial elements as fundamental characteristics of Bacon's paintings: the material structure, the figure and the contour that isolates the figure. These elements reveal that the painter's theme is the suffering of modern man, alone in his room. Suffering understood as the inner torment of a body immersed in chaos, in a meaningless universe. The artist expresses the “lived body” amid the collapse of the order of things. Tthe most obvious sequel to this unusual ambience: the “extreme loneliness of the Figure”. This world, portrayed by Bacon, goes hand in hand with Nietzsche's philosophy that describes the world as “Dionysian”, that is, without goal and without purpose. For the philosopher, the “death of God” highlights the existential nothingness and the suppression of the meaning of things. The most immediate result of the revelation of the “death of God” is loneliness. However, for both, the artist and the philosopher, the loneliness is ambiguous: either it can be a source of nihilism or a source of affirmation. In this work, we intend to confront the works of Bacon, described by Deleuze, with nietzschean philosophy, highlighting the meaning that both attribute to loneliness as a consequence of word-chaos recognition.
Keywords
Chaos; Deleuze; Francis Bacon; Nietzsche; loneliness.