[ ok uh give him a minute here because... well, partially because art is art and he needs to compose a proper critique in order to encourage and point out strengths and weaknesses...
... but also because there is a lot going on there. Like, a LOT. Yusuke knows art, in case that wasn't obvious by now, but he also knows how the artist's feelings and emotions and even state of self at the time of working on a piece can influence how a work comes out. The context and story is lost to him, but the themes on display, maybe not so much.
He has a folder, after all, of angrier, lonelier drawings tucked away back home - from that period of confusion and loss and isolation in his life of losing his father and with it the support and stability he'd given his family. As much as he hates thinking about it now, at the time he'd been angry and resentful at his father for dying; and ultimately alone now that he was caring for his mother full-time instead of just helping his father out. Time and perspective changes things, and those emotions are very much worked through and dissipated by now... but they had been strong enough to taint a whole period of his artistic development.
1/2 dis damn egg
... but also because there is a lot going on there. Like, a LOT. Yusuke knows art, in case that wasn't obvious by now, but he also knows how the artist's feelings and emotions and even state of self at the time of working on a piece can influence how a work comes out. The context and story is lost to him, but the themes on display, maybe not so much.
He has a folder, after all, of angrier, lonelier drawings tucked away back home - from that period of confusion and loss and isolation in his life of losing his father and with it the support and stability he'd given his family. As much as he hates thinking about it now, at the time he'd been angry and resentful at his father for dying; and ultimately alone now that he was caring for his mother full-time instead of just helping his father out. Time and perspective changes things, and those emotions are very much worked through and dissipated by now... but they had been strong enough to taint a whole period of his artistic development.
... it's enough to make him wonder. A little.
But assumption is all it is. ]