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Study after Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Oil on canvas
72”x 58”, 2017, Jean-Antoine Norbert

        This painting is inspired by Francis Bacon’s Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, oil on canvas (60 1/4 x 46 1⁄2”, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa) ( here below). It is a scream against the rise of hatred, violence, and intolerance initiated by the leadership and rhetoric of the Heads of State of so many countries around the world. Whether it is Trump, Erdoğan, or Duterte, more and more world leaders referring to themselves as“anti-establishment” are wielding a toxic agenda that hounds, scapegoats, and dehumanizes entire groups of people.

Standing between the Democratic Vice President Joseph Biden (left) and then-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner (right), Pope Francis (center), identifying polarizing politics as a force fanning the flames of violent national and international division, implored the powerful of Congress and the millions of others tuning in to his speech to refrain from fighting violence and toxic hatred with the same.

On September 24, 2015, Pope Francis gave a speech to the Congress of the United States of America during the Presidency of Barak Obama.