Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Parents

The Parents, 1923

Came across this today while teaching drawing to young'uns (teens).  
As I was showing them a book on Kathe Kollwitz (Kollwitz again, see older post re: Newtown),
I saw this image upside down.  
The overall shape-quality embodies a 'mountain' of grief.  
The abstraction is so concrete, descriptive and expressive. 
 A woodcut about the loss of children to war.  
Today I think of Trayvon Martin's parents, and all parents who have lost children to gun violence.
Their grief, our grief, is embodied and recognizable here, almost 100 years later. 
Might Art play a part in the movement against gun violence?
(As I teach, the young'uns teach me.)


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