

'St Gregory’s Mass' is a painting in the Walker Art Gallery's collection and is the left wing of a triptych for 'The Crucifixion Altarpiece'. Here's how the artwork 'St Gregory’s Mass' is six degrees of separation from away Stanley Kubrick's movie 'The Shining'. It all started when Bacon mentioned in an interview with 'Premiere magazine' that "he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who's worked with them." This inspired three students to invent the Kevin Bacon game, eventually writing a book about it (which Bacon wrote the introduction for) and creating a board game. The theory has been adapted and changed over the years, and in the mid 90s the popular Kevin Bacon game or 'Bacon's Law' was born.

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other.
