Making Modernism gives a thrilling female perspective on sex, self, birth and death The opening this month of an exhibition featuring the work of Paula Modersohn-Becker is big news ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
, as well as Fayum mummy portraits – largely to the study of women and children over her short career.
I have been reading about Modersohn-Becker for years, have discussed her work with artists and art historians, and have studied reproductions of her paintings in books and online. Yet theis the first time that I have actually stood face to face with her paintings. It was an emotional experience. Even after a couple of hours in their company, the effects she achieved with her brush feel mysterious. I need to go back and look again.
Kollwitz’s affecting portrayals of maternal love make the spectre of death all the more upsetting. An elegant woodcut shows the head of mother and child sleeping side by side. In charcoal she sketches twins suckling as though the paper itself were the maternal breast. A mother lifts a tiny baby to her face, nuzzling it with her cheek in a gesture so compellingly animal that it feels truer than all the usual babes in arms.
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