COMPARATIVE STUDY

Tanya Pueblaa Puebla

My comparative study mainly focuses on analyzing and interpreting different artist and their
works.
 EVALUATION AND CULTURAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF KATHE KOLLWITZ
Kathe Kollwitz was considered on the most important artist in
the German Expressionist movement of the 20 th century. Her
art works mainly focused on the depictions of women during a
time period where men dominated the art world. Her ability to
depict emotion through strokes and contrast between light and
dark were a reflection of the time period. Her art was meant to
express the realities of war and trigger emotions such as
sorrow, anguish and loneliness. Her artworks consisted of war
victims and the loss of loved ones. Due to the amount of death
during WWI, she was hostile towards the arrogance of the
philistine of Germany, Communism and the subject of war. She
express this in letters writing, People have been transformed
so that they have this capacity for endurance.... Worst of all is
that every war already carries within the war which will answer
it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything,
everything is smashed. Know she was going to die due to the
war her last letter stated, War accompanies me to the end.
 IN TE RPR ETAT I O N OF F UN C TI O N AND PU R PO S E
A N N O TAT I O N O F M E M O R I A L S H E E T O F K A R L L I E B K N E C H T B Y
K AT H E K O L LW I T Z

Expressions Amount of
and hand people shown
placement expresses how
add emphasis influential a
to the feeling person can be.
of sorrow.
Texture and
repetitive strokes Death of
give a worn out Communist
look suggesting Leader, Karl
the effects of war Liebknecht,
to the population. caused major
Hollow cheek grief during WWI.
bones also Kathe uses a stiff
suggest how form to
much war can emphasize the
wear down
Contrast an
between black and white give a somber atmosphere. Almost effect of death
person.
overwhelming combines with the amount of stokes and forms, leaving no on a person and
empty space. Resembles the death of Christ and how mourning followers. how precious a
 ANALYSIS OF FORMAL QUALITIES OF
KATHE KOLLWITZ

Kathe Kollwitz is able to express intense emotions such as anguish

and grief. Immediately after looking at the publics expressions
while surrounding the dead figure, draws out the emotions of
misery and sadness. Her first hand experience of WWI,
contributes how the death of a leader can greatly impact those
who admired the figure. She is able to create a memorial and
acknowledge the leader without advocating his communist
ideologies. Although she was not communist, she admired his
charisma and agreed to create a memorial for him.

The repetition of strokes adds on the balance between black and

white. Both aspects add emphasis to the emotions of grief and
sorrow making the theme of death clear to the audience. The
stroke's pattern and texture highlight the cheek bones and hands
to give a worn look suggesting how much death and war can
where down a population. The emotion of hope the communist
 EVALUATION OF CULTURAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF EDVARD MUNCH

Edvard Munch is a Norwegian expressionist painter and printer who

played a major role in the late 20th century German Expressionist
movement. In the beginning of his career, he created works that
were dark and dull. He traveled mainly from Berlin to Paris and his
works represented the repressed emotions he grew up with due to
the death of his mother and his fathers mental illness. After
returning home he went for a more colorful and cheerful approach.
Most of his works use symbolism to depict death, love, terror and
loneliness which many viewer felt. His works mainly focused on an
objects internal view rather than exterior and he believed art should
reflect ones emotion or idea rather than the world as an object like in
realism and impressionism. He did this by using contrasting lines,
dark colors and exaggerated tones. He summarizes his art work by
stating, Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye it also
includes the inner pictures of the soul.
 INT ER PR ETAT I O N O F FU N CT I O N AND PU R PO SE :
A N N O TAT I O N O F T H E S C R E A M BY E D VA R D M U N C H

Distorted
Expressionist
background adds on
interpretation of
to the feeling of
Munichs actual
horror.
experience of a scream
he heard while on a
The play of colors
walk.
Curves may represent gives off an ominous
atmosphere.
the effect the scream The scream can be
had.
Two figures in the interpreted as agony
background of a morbid experience
suggest the but has no
companions that resemblance to
kept walking anyone.
while feeing a
scream distort
nature around
him. The Scream by Edvard
ANALYSIS OF FORMAL QUALITIES OF
EDVARD MUNCH
Munch expressed his obsessions of human mortality such
as chronic disease, sexual liberation and religion by using
intense colors and hues to help depict a subject.
His choice of hues in The Scream and the distortion
give a sense of mystery to why the figure is screaming.
The two figures in the background contribute to the sense
of mystery contributing to the agony the main figure is
expressing making the viewer question the context of this
art piece. The ominous atmosphere projected by this
piece is part of the color scheme and how they blend
together drawing the views attention to the darker, more
saturated areas.
The purpose of this piece was to express a real life
experience Edvard had walking by a port with tow others.
He felt an unsettling scream and so he decided to put that
experience in pastel form.
EVALUATION AND CULTURAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF
INTERPRETATION OF FUNCTION AND
PURPOSE
 COMPARING ARTISTIC STYLES

Kathe Kollwitz Edvard Munch

 COMPARING USE OF EMOTION

Kathe Kollwitz Edvard Munch

 FORMAL INTRODUCTION TO OWN
WORKS

Frayed was a piece I created to give a

voice to the elderly and what I thought
they desperately want to express.
Having a similar meaning to The
Scream, I decided to create it in a more
realistic style because I wanted it to be
recognized as an elderly person and so
the emotions would be enhanced in
order to give a clearer emotion.

My second piece, Drudge, I was mainly

inspired my Kollwitz and her German
Expressionist style with a cartoony twist.
I wanted to give a dull and monotonous
Frayed atmosphere to represent those who Drudge
werent able to achieve a job they enjoy.
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
OWN ARTISTIC STYLES TO KATHE
KOLLWITZ

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
OWN USE OF EMOTION TO KATHE
KOLLWITZ

 COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
OWN ARTISTIC STYLES TO EDVARD
MUNCH

 COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
OWN USE OF EMOTION TO EDVARD
MUNCH

 BIBLIAGRAPHY

1. http://www.edvardmunch.org/
2. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/late
r-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/kthe-kollwitz-in-memo
riam-karl-liebknecht
3. https://www.moma.org/artists/320
4. http://www.theartstory.org/artist-munch-edvard.htm1