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.
Reviews
Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture at the Frick Collection
Feb 27, 2019, 12:41 PM
Giovanni Battista Moroni receives his first retrospective in this country.
Two major exhibitions at the Peabody Essex Museum.
The Gilded Age of Drawing in America, now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents three dozen remarkable and rarely seen drawings by artists, both famous and lesser known.
Galerie St. Etienne’s The Woman Question: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka is a showcase of figure draftsmanship and a master class in linear economy.
Themes that I’d find irredeemably cornball from any other artist are rescued both by Abbott Thayer’s prickly earnestness and his formal abilities as a draftsman and painter.
One of the things that’s impressive about van Dyck is his ability to portray introspective subjects with theatrical flair.
Degas and Van Gogh shared common ground in their disdain for convention, or more to the point, a willingness to circumvent conventional means when necessary, which is to say frequently.
A review of Paula Modersohn-Becker at Galerie St. Etienne by Jerry Weiss.
A survey of the Renaissance master’s drawings lands in New York.