I am into reading triptych stuff. A quote from Bacon follows. It seems
to me that triptych need to be divergent and haptic, for now, anyway.
You get lost in a triptych because it takes off at odd angles which
fuddle the optic?
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/francisbacon/bbcarchive.shtm
he says: "Abstract painting is a form of escaping the issue, because
Abstract painting can never... even at its very best, can be never more
than lyrical, charming, and decorative. It never, finally, unlocks, like
great art can do, unlocks the valves of feeling by the... by this
attempt to record the fact. When I... You see?, what any artist needs
today is a profound technical imagination. It's a technique by which he
can reset the trap in which the image he wants to record can be trapped
again..." (1965).
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