Art Rec: Sherlock

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Title: Sherlock
Artist: tilartdouspart on tumblr
Pairing: Gen
Rating: not rated, I would say G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock, 2013 art

Reccer's comments: I love this piece. I labelled it "ghost violin" in my bookmarks. Sherlock's face, only half visible, emerges from the canvas's white space, which shrouds him like a fog. We see suggestions of his neck, the barest outline of his body, and a blurry hand emerging to rest on a violin defined largely by the lines of its strings and the gloss of its outer edges.

This is a work of art that plays with incompleteness. It shows us some details with startling clarity - the mouth, the nose - while hiding others partially or entirely. Many artists have created beautiful portraits of this character, but this one creates beauty in a different way, by guiding our eyes to see the elegance in features that we would likely overlook were we presented with a fully realized and recognizable form.

I find it a haunting, delicate image.

Comments

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That is gorgeous and delicate and intriguing! And your review is insightful and wonderful! Thank you

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it :)