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The painting is called, "fuck abstraction!" and the handmaiden artist claims it's not literal:

Miriam Cahn, a Swiss artist in her seventies, has claimed that the work, supposedly a tribute of sorts to victims of alleged war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, does not depict a man and a child. She claims the victim’s childlike size and physique is intended to represent “the corporeal power of the oppressor, and the fragility of the oppressed” — but many are unconvinced.

[–]ihaveyourdress 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They couldn't just make an obese criminal and a skinny victim?

It had to be the most controversial depiction possible?