5th march

Last semester I learned draw by using the charcoal. It was challenged, because I always worked with graphite but this tool was hard to control the making depths and sensitive lines. However, the several master copy process helped to develop the techniques.

『Example works』The faces of humanity and a diversity of emotions.

The next art works will reflect by  Kathe Kollwitz's  'Woman with Dead Child’and Edvard Munch's 'The scream'. Their works are characterized by their focus on humanity and a diversity of emotion. The artworks convey feelings such as suffering, pain, hopeless by drawing upon their personal experiences of the life. I inspired by their likewise captures and it is challenge me to produce the major piece.

  German artist Kathe Kollwitz's (1867-1945) etching work, ‘Woman with Dead Child’(1903) reflects on the near death of her eldest son, Hans and conveys the profound suffering and sorrow she experienced after his death during World War I.

I feel overwhelmed with sympathy by the way this poor mother is seen clutching her child, unwilling to let go. It seems like she wants to experience more of her child, more time, more emotion and more experiences.I cannot personally imagine how she must have felt but I can see in my minds eye the pure torture one would suffer having to live a life without their precious child – one which you brought into this world.  The enormity of her sorrow in this piece seems to leap off the page and into my heart...

   Edvard Munch’s(1863) childhood experiences and memories were the subject of many of his emotional paintings. The Scream (1895) is the most famous of his paintings offers a disturbing depiction of the anxiety and melancholy that Munch experienced at that stage of his life.

When I look at this powerful painting, I can relate to several times in my life when I felt completely overwhelmed by my emotions and literally wanted to scream so that I could release the tension building inside of me. Feelings of intense pain, horror and helplessness are common to humanity. It is extraordinary how some people cope with the pain and heartache they are forced to endure, such as the loss of a child or a lover’s betrayal.