Description of work: The artwork by Kollwitz, is really deep and meaningful. It’s not like her other works where they’re dark, yet this sculpture isn’t. This artwork shows a man and a woman, which is her and her husband, grieving after finding out about the death of her son, Peter that had past away in WW1. The artwork is now located at the Vladslo German War Cemetery.
Media: Kathe Kollwitz has used heavy, tough granite for this sculpture. This artwork is 3-Dimensional, and is about life size. Granite is a very hard and heavy stone, and with the lady having her back hunched over, it makes it look like she’s got all that weight on her shoulders from despair, and her mourning over her son’s death. What you would usually use to make sculpture to start off with is the simple hammer and chisel. Then you would use other tools such as a toothed/claw chisel which adds more detail and refines the sculpture which you see Kollwitz has done for this sculpture, as you can tell by facial features, and the detail done on the clothing, and their hands gripping their own bodies which shows the …show more content…
As you can see that what Kollwitz has done. The impact of the media and processes, is that it shows grief and despair with how one of the bodies are slouched, and both of them are on their knees, looking cold, and clinging on to their own bodies with their arms. How she also used a hard material for this sculpture, and how it’s not shiny either, also shows the viewers how deep and gloomy it is, and it visualizes the scene especially Kollwitz and her husband grieving over their son and it brings emotions not only for the artist, but also for the viewers. As for the process, it took Kollwitz a long time, and it must have emotionally drained her, and she would have used so much physical energy to do this, and to express her feelings on to the artwork, it would have been very hard for
Media: Kathe Kollwitz has used heavy, tough granite for this sculpture. This artwork is 3-Dimensional, and is about life size. Granite is a very hard and heavy stone, and with the lady having her back hunched over, it makes it look like she’s got all that weight on her shoulders from despair, and her mourning over her son’s death. What you would usually use to make sculpture to start off with is the simple hammer and chisel. Then you would use other tools such as a toothed/claw chisel which adds more detail and refines the sculpture which you see Kollwitz has done for this sculpture, as you can tell by facial features, and the detail done on the clothing, and their hands gripping their own bodies which shows the …show more content…
As you can see that what Kollwitz has done. The impact of the media and processes, is that it shows grief and despair with how one of the bodies are slouched, and both of them are on their knees, looking cold, and clinging on to their own bodies with their arms. How she also used a hard material for this sculpture, and how it’s not shiny either, also shows the viewers how deep and gloomy it is, and it visualizes the scene especially Kollwitz and her husband grieving over their son and it brings emotions not only for the artist, but also for the viewers. As for the process, it took Kollwitz a long time, and it must have emotionally drained her, and she would have used so much physical energy to do this, and to express her feelings on to the artwork, it would have been very hard for