L'après-midi d'un faune vs. Francis Bacon

A Bridge of Ideas

You rated Mallarmé's 'L'après-midi d'un faune' with a respectable 4/5, and though Gilles Deleuze's 'Francis Bacon' remains unrated by you, the profound connection lies in their shared exploration of escaping the constraints of established forms. Both the Symbolist poet and the post-structuralist philosopher, despite operating in vastly different creative domains, employ intense experimentation to shatter conventional perception, urging you to see the latent possibilities within the very fabric of expression – Mallarmé through linguistic abstraction and Deleuze through the visceral, distorted visages of Bacon's art.