GERMAN artist Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was steeped in progressive politics and culture from childhood.
Her grandfather and father were socialists and her own lifelong conviction was reaffirmed through meeting the patients of her husband, Doctor Karl Kollwitz, in a working-class district of Berlin.
She managed to combine motherhood with a successful career as a teacher and artist without compromising her social and political beliefs.
Kollwitz had a traditional academic art education, in which oil paining topped the hierarchy of mediums, but she committed to printmaking because this better served her central aim of producing cheaply accessible works.
“It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time,” she said. So she stuck to readily legible realist styles, despite the avant-garde experimentation as an end in itself then being highly prized in progressive circles.
Game Changer, Susan Copich Decay and mortality in America s Rust Belt, child labor, women depicting women, and the intersection of rigid graphics and lyrical line work in this month s round-up of Hudson Valley art exhibits.
Susan Copich at Windham Fine Arts Set in Youngstown, Ohio, Copich s latest work, then he forgot my name, is a self-portrait photography series examining decay and mortality in America s Rust Belt. The series emerged over three years while Copich shuttled between her hometown in Ohio and upstate New York, and spending time with her father, who was battling dementia. Using a rundown family-owned building in downtown Youngstown as a backdrop, she set out researching the structure s history and re-imagining past occupants. Copich s photography illuminates a psychological landscape through the pain of living, the continuum of decay, and the struggle for change while reflecting on the collective awakening of female
As a safer alternative to international travel during the pandemic, a new exhibition in the Stark Galleries allows students to learn about diverse cultures through a broad range of artwork.
The J. Wayne Stark Galleries opened the âArmchair Travel: Exploring International Art and Artists from the Permanent Collectionâ exhibit on Thursday, Jan. 21 and will be available until Wednesday, March 10.
Director of the University Art Galleries Catherine Hastedt said there are two reasons why she decided to display this collection.
âWeâre in the midst of COVID[-19], so I wanted people to be able to travel sort of, ⦠even though they canât visit those countries,â Hastedt said. âWhen weâve done international art before, itâs always been appreciated by the visitors and the students because they say, âIt was so nice to see artwork from my country.ââ
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Andy Warholâs Mao Screen-print Leads Lark Mason Associates Print Sale
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Mao, a screen-print by Andy Warhol, dated 1972, (ed.25/250) (Estimate $30,000-$50,000; reserve $15,000). It was donated by James Hannon, class of 1960, to his alma mater Visitation Catholic School, in Kewanee Illinoisâa small midwestern town of 12,900 residents. Proceeds from the print will support technology, scholarships and operations needed to ensure students and teachers a consistent quality learning experience during the COVID 19 pandemic.
âSelling works that benefit a worthy cause is always rewarding,â says Lark Mason. âAnd what could be more gratifying than a small rural school in Illinois benefiting from the sale of Warholâs