"Portrait of Bob"
Oil on canvas
Wade Reynolds
What I Like About This: Here is another artist who employs one of my favorite techniques in creating a work of subtle emotive tension by blurring the focus and washing out detail to allow the viewer to fill in the void of attributes in their own imagination. Here the subject is a young man named Bob. We don't know who Bob is or anything about his story and that is the beauty of this painting. This work makes us want to know. Some perhaps not all together subtle clues abound... The artist is well known for his works depicting gay life and subjects, and here Bob is wearing tight jeans with a not unnoticeable bulge at the crotch as he looks down while displaying a quite demure look upon his face. Is he a hustler? Is he a boyfriend? Is he sad or merely being coy? We will never know, but the imagination fills this canvas with all the missing details that the artist skillfully omitted.
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