I have already written a report on kathe kollwitz for my printmaking unit, but i wanted to write a little about her for my expressive drawing unit. As i said in my last post she was a German Artists born in 1867 and died in 1945.
Kollowitz did a lot of self portraits....
Self-portrait, 1891 |
Self-portrait, 1893 |
Self-Portrait, 1910 |
Woman with Dead Child, 1903 |
They feel very emotionally intense and as is said in my last blog they are depicting people in poverty and people who are emotionally devastated. I think this is partly due to her use of monotone. I really like her work, as hard as it is to look at, it is very raw. Her use of rough line and texture i think speaks for the rough life the people in her drawings had to endure. I think it is something to remember when drawing, your subject and how you can truly capture your subject.
I perticularly like the images where hands are the highlight as i feel hands say a lot of someone.
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