A woodcut in black and white of a wad of people, like a circle huddle of mothers wrapped around children to protect them, their hands and faces exaggerated, large, expressive, and fearful.

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   Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 23:09:40 JST Tarnport

   Kathe Kollwitz. The Mothers, 1922.

   She is a gleaming outlier. She paved the way to German expressionism but was a generation or two before it took off. She was concerned with peasants and justice and is remembered for profound grief, having been born in just the moment to lose a child in WW1 and then die herself during WW2. Obviously her worldview was not sanguine. I am sorry to be so doom-y, but we must not shy away from what her work has to tell us now.

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