In our latest glimpse into the creative mind, FX readers discover how the art found in the National Portrait Gallery and Tate's permanent collections has inspired Carlos Virgile

摘要

I always ensure making a detour to see this painting when I visit the National Gallery. 'Venus and Cupid' is about a hyper image of beauty. It is somehow disturbing in its erotic beauty, with the narrative being obscure and enigmatic, almost ambivalent. But beauty can be as disturbing as a Francis Bacon work. In his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, at Tate Britain, the figures are shocking - half animal, half human - but there is also an element of beauty in the image, the structure, the intensity of its colour. It is not for the fainthearted but I'm always struck by its power and passion.