Right. the week I say 'I don't rec art' and I have two art recs.
So this doesn't get lost in all the Holiday fests, I feel the need to point it out.
Sometime I look at something and am so taken by it I can't forget it. Yesterday Livejournal user Kaptainsnot posted
Socks. A Worksafe picture (G) featuring Harry and Snape. I just adore this piece because Kaptainsnot draws everything I am and everything I am not. This picture is so beautiful, even though the colors are muted by the scanner. It has an execution akin to the German art of the early 1900's. The subtitle qualities of the picture is something I admire, since I tend to explore more garish, abrasive themes and coloring. If my style is reminiscent to Beckmann, Kaptainsnot is more akin to Klowitz. The mundane subjects, the moments that these figures/characters share are so intimate and deep felt, I cannot but be in awe of the emotion that runs through.
Socks is a great piece. Snape curls up trying to sleep and Harry is involved with his task of removing his sock, showing a common moment in the lives of two people. They are touching, but Snape faces away and Harry is lost in his exhaustion, his eyes are closed while his head rolls back after a trying day. There is a melancholy running through the lack of interaction. And each character comes through. The willful isolation of Snape, facing the other direction, his face bearing marks from years of tension is perfect. Harry's warmth in his coloring and the way he sways towards Severus, but not quite enough to be overbearing is exactly how I picture an older Harry. He know when to fight his battles and when to pester the people he cares about. He is tired of fighting and basks in the moment of simple pleasures, like shucking off shoes and socks after a hard day.
It's pretty perfect to me. It reflects the way things would be and doesn't dramatize it or romatasizes it. Snape is Snape and Harry is Harry.
So go see now.