Most of Bacon's paintings depict isolated figures, often framed by geometric constructions, and rendered in smeared, violent colours.
This school was marked by dynamic verve, illogical perspectives, concealed grotesques, violent colours, and a strong tendency to see excess as a source of virtue.
Surely it will be the next country to see a magnificently non-violent, colour-coded, do-it-yourself regime change?It is certainly a beguiling thought.
Ofili used violent, vibrant colour in figurative paintings, drawing on several cultures - African, Aboriginal, African-American history to mention a few - all worked out in intricate pattern and texture, with glitter and collage and paint.
A contemporary described Turner 'pouring wet paint on to the paper till it was saturated, he tore, he scratched, he scrabbled in a kind of frenzy.' The brush movements are violent, the colour contrasts sudden: it's action painting, with the trickiest medium, long before the 20th century.
Where Three Kingdoms was a violent explosion of noise, colour and sex, Carmen Disruption feels colder, bleaker, and more introspective.
His portraits teeter towards abstraction, even as they record violent reality in acid colours.
In a similar appreciative spirit, the French critic André Fontainas praised Gauguin for "his complete sincerity," "surging emotions," and the very modern "violent oppositions" of his colours.
We organised a so-called peace and white march – "peace" because our protest was non-violent; "white" to represent the colour of doctors' coats.
