Around that time, purely by chance, Kuo came across a catalogue of works by the Dublin-born British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992). The distorted, exaggerated depictions of bodies and faces carried a powerful message of sickness, self-destructiveness, and schizophrenia. Stunningly powerful, they inspired Kuo to the realization that "there is also a kind of beauty in tragedy."
當時一個偶然機會下，他看到出生於都柏林的英國畫家法蘭斯・培根（1909-1992）的畫冊，一張張誇張的身體，扭曲、變形的臉，帶有強烈召喚死亡的訊息，作品呈現病態、自殘、精神分裂般的解構，震撼力十足，讓郭維國深覺，「原來悲劇也是一種美。」