关注社会关注人类的艺术大师——凯绥·柯勒惠支

A Talk on Kathe Kollwitz

德国伟大的艺术家凯绥·柯勒惠支成功地把深深感到的社会义务通过令人信服的、完全独特的艺术语言表现出来。她的艺术充满着一种对社会对人类的人道主义关怀。这种艺术上的基调和她所处的时代、环境和本人的经历不无关系。由此,她的绘画创作所支配的主题主要有两个方面:早期作品的中心是反抗,塑造了一批低沉、穷困、反抗和奋争的艺术形象;而晚年的作品则是从母性的角度出发,表现战争以及战争给人类带来的灾难、饥饿、死亡与恐惧。

Kathe Kollwitz, one of the great masters of art in Germany, has successfully expressed her deeply-felt social concern through her convincing and unique artistic language. Her art was saturated with a kind of humanitarian concern for human beings and society, which was closely related to her time, social milieu and her personal experiences. Dominant in her paintings are two motifs: one is revolt in her early paintings, which resulted in the delineation of a series of depressed, impoverished and revolting artistic images. The other is humanitarian concern in her later paintings, for she portrays wars and the disaster, famine, death and terror brought upon mankind by wars from the angle of maternity.