Hand Knit posted:

For What?, Varley

Cloks posted:

taking modernist painting techniques and using it to make images of war look pastoral is the painting equivalent of a shitpost

Hand Knit posted:

For What?, Varley

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Lol to call those "pastoral" is quite the take


Edit: tbh using the phrase "modernist technique" is way worse but come on

Wheeee posted:

Cloks posted:

i don't know art but i know what i like

Durf posted:

Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.

Kollwitz was a committed socialist and pacifist, who was eventually attracted to communism. She expressed her political and social sympathies in her woodcut print, "memorial sheet for Karl Liebknecht" and in her involvement with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst, a part of the Social Democratic Party government in the first few weeks after the war. As the war wound down and a nationalistic appeal was made for old men and children to join the fighting, Kollwitz implored in a published statement:

"There has been enough of dying! Let not another man fall!"

In 1933, after the establishment of the National-Socialist regime, the Nazi Party authorities forced her to resign her place on the faculty of the Akademie der Künste following her support of the Dringender Appell. Her work was removed from museums. Although she was banned from exhibiting, one of her "mother and child" pieces was used by the Nazis for propaganda. In July 1936, she and her husband were visited by the Gestapo, who threatened her with arrest and deportation to a Nazi concentration camp; they resolved to commit suicide if such a prospect became inevitable. However, Kollwitz was by now a figure of international note, and no further action was taken.

She was evacuated from Berlin in 1943. Later that year, her house was bombed and many drawings, prints, and documents were lost. She moved first to Nordhausen, then to Moritzburg, a town near Dresden, where she lived her final months as a guest of Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony. Kollwitz died just 16 days before the end of the war.



<sub>Käthe Kollwitz, Die Gefangenen, 1908




Käthe Kollwitz, Beim Dengein, 1905




Käthe Kollwitz, Schlachtfeld, 1905




Käthe Kollwitz, Frau mit totem Kind, 1903</sub>

Dreylad posted:

I was thinking about posting group of seven ww1 stuff when I saw this thread too. For those who aren't Canadian the Group of Seven were incredibly popular modernist painters who largely painted rocks and trees, because canadians are insanely boring, but a lot of them learned modern painting when they went to Europe during the First World War.



Trenches Near Angres A.Y. Jackson



Gas Attack, Levine A.Y. Jackson



Screened Road 'A' A.Y. Jackson

Hand Knit posted:

A thousand years ago I hit you up for some book recs about them, I think. One of the things that stuck with me was the accusation that some of their most famous Canadian landscape work had been commissioned by a bank for the purpose of driving up the property value (I forget to what ends). If that's true, it's a great little shorthand for the Canadian nationalism they're often taken to represent.

paul_soccer12 posted:

art for ants

Dr. Killjoy posted:

and this was just some of Hu Ming's less horny work