tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post893621595977543741..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Kaethe Kollwitz, Printmaker and Pioneering CinematographerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-72116018373237203672009-05-21T10:19:30.760-04:002009-05-21T10:19:30.760-04:00hi, do you know what kollwitz' inspiration was for...hi, do you know what kollwitz' inspiration was for Prisoners? I cannot seem to find it, so if you know could please email me at tiarnah_graham@hotmail.com? That would be great thanku.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-199102733391227222009-04-14T16:20:00.000-04:002009-04-14T16:20:00.000-04:00Thanks for writing about Kaethe Kollwitz. Her art,...Thanks for writing about Kaethe Kollwitz. Her art, introduced into China by iconic Chinese leftist writer Lu Xun, greatly influence several generations of Chinese artists. I grew up with her art in China. My mother chose print making as her major at an art school in China because she was fascinated by Kollwitz's powerful art. Kollwitz was heavily promoted by the Communist Chinese government and art educators because of its socialist flavor and the depiction of the proletariat.Young artists in China nowadays are not familiar with her art as avant garde/abstract art is all the rage and figurative art has become old fashioned. It's also part of their rebellion against official propaganda art. I admired her art but disliked the socialist theme because it was all the propaganda has been about in China for so many decades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-4184361115197070552008-09-29T10:05:00.000-04:002008-09-29T10:05:00.000-04:00I've not seen Kollwitz's work before. It's powerf...I've not seen Kollwitz's work before. It's powerful and wrenching, and all her own. The etchings remind me of some from a much earlier period, but I can't think whose at the moment.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-80459048663340874092008-09-27T14:27:00.000-04:002008-09-27T14:27:00.000-04:00The two Kollwitz etchings I have are both disturbi...The two Kollwitz etchings I have are both disturbing and fine. Her example was awesome.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167056789275283692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-36482684558823988152008-09-27T03:47:00.000-04:002008-09-27T03:47:00.000-04:00She didn't fit the standard Once Received...; = )She didn't fit the standard Once Received...<BR/><BR/><BR/>; = )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-47639258399544215182008-09-27T01:07:00.000-04:002008-09-27T01:07:00.000-04:00In this regard, and with respect to stained glass,...In this regard, and with respect to stained glass, please see my latest blog post slideshow, and please pay particular attention to the frame with "the hands" (stop the show there), left-most frame. I'm sorry, it's late, I can't even come up with the name of the artist, but I'll research it if you like.<BR/><BR/>Best...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-73528093065359366802008-09-26T23:48:00.000-04:002008-09-26T23:48:00.000-04:00I think that ideological conflict between abstract...I think that ideological conflict between abstract and figurative art is largely over now. As far as I'm concerned, Willem de Kooning was always right when he said that the whole conflict was a red herring. Even a painting of green, he said, was still an image. One of the things that people discover as they study figurative art techniques is how abstract they really are.<BR/><BR/>Now the big argument is over the viability of painting itself in a technological age. This is an argument that goes back to the invention of photography, and as far as I can tell, painting seems to be flourishing and the demand for it has not diminished And that's true not just in the official museum/ gallery/ academic art circles. The walls of neighborhoods in New York and many cities are covered with painting that is not vandalism. Some of it is memorials for the dead; some of it is commissions; some of it does what painting has always done, articulate matters of identity and belief.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-91572980387086485532008-09-26T23:20:00.000-04:002008-09-26T23:20:00.000-04:00Kollwitz came to my attention through illustration...Kollwitz came to my attention through illustrations in history books, not through art history books. Her work provokes strong emotional response directed away from the art itself, and I suppose that some critics considered her work mere political cartoons.<BR/><BR/>I have liked narrative / figural art for a long time, and have wondered why it was ignored by most of the art industry magazines from the late 1960s onward. My parents subscribed to Art in America and other such, and in my teen years I used to pore over the magazines. Apparently figural art was OK if dating from the 19th century or earlier, but not OK in modern times. (I am not against abstract expressionism and the subsequent isms, just couldn't see why other forms should be downgraded).<BR/><BR/>NancyPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com