“As I drew and cried alongside the terrified children I drew, I really felt the weight I was carrying. I felt I had no right to shirk the responsibility of being an advocate.” – Kathe Kollwitz.As a German painter and sculptor, Kathe Kollwitz conveyed in her statement that the art she created has the weight of transfiguration. The fixation of pain and hardship that occurred as she sat huddled with the children was the driving force behind her drawings. His awareness that art could not only be an escape from the horrors happening in Germany, such as food rationing at that time, was also a way to express his opinion on change and revolution. It was the research that he fell in love with in his drawings and it is this feeling that I appreciate from it. I chose this artist because she outlined the various circumstances surrounding the human individual, she took into account the perspectives that involved life with its tragedies and the lives of little angel children. His drawings and sculptures were made to emulate and capture what his eyes had seen while he was travelling...
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