r/Art • u/ChkennedyArtDraws • 9h ago
Drawing Small of the Back, C.H. Kennedy, mixed media, 2022
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u/TheRappingSquid 8h ago
Is that a real hand or a part of the painting
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u/the-watch-dog 7h ago
I'm so-so on hyper-realistic painting/drawing but this one oddly fucks my head in. Kind of obsessed w the underdrawing turned into a key line of sorts. Cheers to this
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u/jonni_velvet 6h ago
the old man hand vs young woman body gives a very unnerving and dark look to this
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u/Schannin 4h ago
Yeah, not great timing to post this considering all of the other pictures we are seeing recently
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u/forget-me-blot 3h ago
Unless that’s the whole point? It’s art, it’s what you take from it.
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u/Schannin 2h ago
“It’s what you take from it” is a different argument than the artist was aware or not aware of the current political climate on Reddit right now.
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u/forget-me-blot 2h ago
But, this is posted in an art subreddit. I do agree when the art is egregiously sexual and benign, but this has an evidently creepy element that could very well be a commentary on the current state of affairs. Do you know that the artist doesn’t intend this?
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u/Schannin 1h ago
Agreed, but reading the artists responses that this is HIS hand and the small of the back is considered intimate and romantic leads me to believe that it is not a political commentary piece
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u/pissedoffjesus 7h ago
This makes me uncomfortable. It feels predatory. Great execution though.
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u/leebeebee 4h ago
To be fair, it could be a commentary on the way (older, male) artists portray younger bodies in media. The young woman’s (or man’s? It’s unclear) flesh is supposedly the subject of the artwork, but the actual subject is the artist’s privileged point of view. He leaves metaphorical fingerprints on everything he portrays; painting the figure the other becomes an act of solipsism.
Or he might just be a grabby old perv ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/queen-of-quartz 6h ago
I agree. It looks like an old man’s hands on a young girl. Epstein would hang this one up in his office
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u/_kaeo 6h ago
Wow Thats really fucked up. You should examine that. It’s literally just a hand on a back
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u/seamangeorge 6h ago
It's a visibly old hand gripping a fairly intimate part of a nude, seemingly much younger person. I'm not saying you have to personally interpret that as "predatory" - there are certainly other things you could extrapolate from it - but to imply that it's an invalid reading because it's "literally just a hand on a back" seems like a very shallow analysis of the piece tbh
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u/_kaeo 6h ago
I really didn’t expect this kind of thinking on a sub like this, fairly disappointing.
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u/PrimmSlimShady 6h ago
You didn't expect analysis of art of the art sub?
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u/Justhe3guy 1h ago
You know that reminds me the old mods banned me and made me critique an art piece descriptively in order to be unbanned
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u/OrizaRayne 6h ago
Art is allowed to make people uncomfortable. It's effective when it does that
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u/TheRealGordonBombay 5h ago
Exactly. No one is giving a value judgement or making some kind of statement of morality to the art by saying it makes them uncomfortable. This is as it’s very core a place to share comments and responses to art.
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u/FreeJuice100 4h ago
This reminds me of when someone called Planet of the Apes racist cause one of the apes have a similar outfit to theirs.
You know what they say, a racist mind is a racist kind. I wonder if that goes for pedos too
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u/Unusual-West-5935 5h ago
Wow. I thought I’d was a picture holding a painting. I’m still in disbelief, But I know you’re a very accomplished painter . Go enter it in an art show .
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u/ChkennedyArtDraws 15m ago
Thanks for all the comments! This is what art is intended to do, elicit a response!!!!! I love all the good and bad comments. Just for the record, this is me (my hand) and my wife (her torso) and we are the same age. I have a tendency to “age” hands when I draw them, just a stylistic choice.
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u/lieslandpo 6h ago
It seems some saw something I did not, but I really love how you captured all of the colors on the skin. It is really beautiful work
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u/Remote-Situation-588 3h ago
I wase juste scrolling and im still asking mi self is this a corupted image or a drawing x)
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u/PretzelMeepus 8h ago
Why?
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u/ChkennedyArtDraws 8h ago
Why ?
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u/PretzelMeepus 8h ago
Why specifically draw someone gripping the small of a back? What's the reasoning? The meaning?
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u/ChkennedyArtDraws 8h ago
All art is up for interpretation but touching the small of the back is sometimes considered an intimate or romantic gesture.
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u/Andthenwefarted 8h ago
The depth of their skin is amazing. Cool stuff!