“Jerry Seinfeld drinking coffee in the style of Francis Bacon”
Writing about the polarizing work of Francis Bacon in for the New Yorker in 2009, art critic Peter Schjeldahl noted that the artists’ entire career was based on work that “mobilized an emotion of energetic, strangely energizing despair.” Given that the guy was most known for vividly disturbing paintings of screaming priests and mutilated nudes, I was curious what it might look like if Bacon turned his attention to noted standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
And I wish I could tell you, but the results just… don’t look like the guy. They certainly look like something Bacon himself would conjure up—they all have the warped facial features faces and mostly-muted palette that are a hallmark of his work. They definitely look unsettling enough, but they just aren’t Jerry, at least to this particular Seinfeld-fan.
