Käthe Kollwitz

I have become fascinated with this person's work. It is brimful of feeling and compassion. I am a particular admirer of artists who use their work as a means of trying to create social change or expose injustice; Kollwitz does this in such an honest and affecting manner that it is difficult to ignore. I love how in many of her prints she uses very violent and graphic lines that read as very basic but have an immense visual power. Her figures swim in complete darkness and seem to emerge like ghostly effigies. She uses chiaroscuro dramatically but her images don't seem like heightened, deformed comments on the human condition. They just seem truthful and candid.