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How do I adore The Thing, let me count the ways: The lovingly shot winter landscape that I would kill to see projected on an IMAX screen, Kurt Russell’s beard, and of course, the Things themselves.  Every time I see them in all their grotesque, violating, horrifying glory, they call to mind Francis Bacon’s paintings.  After all, both film and artist depicted humans in a state of disfigurement.

Rob Bottin’s work

Bacon’s work:

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

Head 1

Fragment of a Crucifixion

Three Studies for a Crucifixion

Second Version of Triptych