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Traditional Art

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 119 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

It is about rape, so yeah. The telling of trauma is intentional.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh ok, I see it now. It seemed abstract at first glance.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Totally. It is a bit abstract, or perhaps Dada or Surrealism inspired. It could be said that trauma is baked into those movements.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes to properly show the horrors of the real you have to leave the real behind

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, history and art don't repeat themselves, contemporaries rhyme with the past.

[–] Snowclone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's considered surrealist by which ever groups of Art History PhDs who decide these things

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 3 points 6 months ago

Makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I read it as about menstruation

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. The sexual assault reading comes from the artist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My first look was similar. But after reading the comments and looking again, it became more obvious to be about rape.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what I said, in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. Cheers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Oh interesting. I definitely see that now. I thought it was “passion according to gh”

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (20 children)

I hate that I could tell what it was about without looking at the comments :/

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[–] fluxion 28 points 6 months ago

Seems like a good depiction of what it's like to be forced to carry your rapist's baby

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

It's interesting how the first and final frames have similar poses.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jesus christ what’s going on here?

[–] Shou 8 points 6 months ago

Depiction of rape

[–] Rolando 7 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

nsfw label would had been appreciated...

[–] poissonDistribution 4 points 6 months ago

This book is psychedelic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I wish someone would fuck me like that... 😮‍💨

[–] Thcdenton 6 points 6 months ago
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