Kollwitz’s art was both a response to the suffering of others and a processing of personal experience. For Kollwitz, character born of hardship was indistinguishable from—lo, was the necessary source of—beauty.
As all portrait artists know, there is something solemnly ceremonious about the full-profile position. We do not make eye contact—that being somehow beneath the authority of the subject—just as the set mouth seems to be not just momentarily, but eternally, silent.
Art, At the League
“I’ve Been a Person Other People Always Wanted to Paint or Photograph.”
Feb 1, 2021, 11:00 AM
The story and relationship behind two of the best-known works in the Art Students League of New York’s permanent collection.
“Variousness is the main unifying characteristic of this exhibition, after abstractness and a celebration of the power of color.” —Karen Wilken
Notable work by students in the classes of Yasumitsu Morito, Frank O’Cain, and Larry Poons.
Notable works from students in the classes of Anthony Antonios, Sherry Camhy, and Christopher Gallego.
Notable works from students in the classes of Naomi Campbell, Leonid Lerman, and Eric March.
Notable work by students in the classes of Jeff Buckland, Cliff Dufton, Hak Sul Lee, James Little, Fran O’Neill, Ephraim Rubenstein, Dana Parlier, Wendy Shalen, Anne Stanner & Natsuki Takauji
Notable works from the classes of Dionisio Cimarelli, Jon deMartin, Max Ginsburg, Silya Kiese, Peter Reginato, and Frederick Wong
Notable works from the classes of Ellen Eagle, Leonid Gervits, Michael Burban, and Paul Oestreicher & Chris Raccioppi