#but it just irks me when people dont care enough to cherish his artistic identity

[charlunday]

CHARLIE TELL ME ABT PEETAS ART <3

Okay guys. Hold on. Get ready.

One aspect of Peeta's character that I feel is so overlooked/misunderstood is his identity as an artist. In the movies, we don't even really delve into it! The most we get is his painting of Rue in Catching Fire, when in the books we get so much more! And you'd think, with all that in the books, people would understand it a bit better.

But they don't!

This is absolutely zero hate to anyone that does any of these things, this is just my opinion!

When reading fics, it's a common occurrence that people will include Peeta's identity as an artist but not truly understand his art. They will give him a heavily abstract style, describing smears and splatters. To me, this reads as a person who doesn't have as much experience with the fine details of what it means to be an artist. In the books, Peeta is anything but abstract! Katniss describes how he perfectly captures images and scenes from the Games. When you layer that with his talent for hyper realistic camouflage (I will never be over that being attributed to him being a baker in the movies), you come to realize that Peeta is a painter that works in fine, realistic details. Not "sporadic splashes of color," as I've seen in some fics. (Again! No hate! I know not everyone is as deranged about this as me.)

Then that brings me to thinking about specifics. What do I think his art resembles? Well, we know he can do near photo realism. But when he's just working for himself, I think his art takes on more of a romantic style. For many reasons (including the fact that he has a romantic little heart), the first of which being this:

Just look. Look at that. You're telling me Peeta "soft like a sunset" Mellark wouldn't depict his one true love (the sky) like this.

The second reason is that romanticism itself was born in an era of revolution/social change! So not only do I think it fits him stylistically, but it fits him thematically! Look at this! This is the face of romanticism!

(Just think about him depicting his OTHER one true love like this 🤭)

In conclusion, think about Peeta's art however you want. There is no wrong interpretation! This is just my personal idea of his artistic identity.

#the hunger games #peeta mellark #nobody cares #i know that #but it just irks me when people dont care enough to cherish his artistic identity #and just make him do random splatter art #i enjoy abstract art! #its just not him #in MY opinion