glitterfish.com

This image is so interesting because it mashes up a couple of different styles making it hard to pin down. The landscape is sort of crude impressionism but it’s really serving as a backdrop for the woman to cover up. That means what we are looking at is actually a painting of a women painting over a painting (or if you want to get super technical actually a digital photograph on your computer screen of a painting of a women covering up a painting). That sort of self-referentialism moves it into DaDa territory but limited only to the “this is not a pipe” kind of DaDa.

It’s not exactly a Venus or anything but it is the female form. The upskirt angle is certainly provocative I would say borderline porny. And what does it mean that she’s white washing over nature? Does she look so caught in the act because her underwear is showing or because we caught her covering up the mural?

I couldn’t find anything about the artist other than it’s part of flickr user Trentcall’s series of similar images. Check them out.

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