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Kathe Kollwitz

Tone has  a role to model form, record local colour, cast shadows etc  but with Kathe Kollwitz we see the emotive power of tone.

Here the tonal scale of he hands is a greater range from dark to light than the child’s head. The contrast of adult and child , experience and innocence has a visual metaphor in the range of dark and light used to depict each.

  • Tone can be balanced and contrasts controlled to communicate an emotional response to the subject. This has been known to portrait painters for some time who , for example, may  keep tonal contrasts close on a child’s head and avoid heavy contrasts of dark and light.

  • Home
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  • Outdoors
    • enamel
  • Indoors
  • People etc
  • Childrens books
    • Never Let a bear
    • No Time to Play
  • Contact
  • About Roger
  • Teaching
    • 12 stage drawing course >
      • 1 Touch Self Portrait
      • 2 Exploring Touch
      • 3 Wrapping and feeling the form
      • 4 What is a line ?
      • 5 Extending touch
      • 6 Building volumes
      • 7 Contours to Volumes
      • 8 Axis and Oval
      • 9 Navigating and mapping
      • 10 Measured Drawing
      • 11 Negative shape
      • 12 Modelling volumes
    • Learning from masterpieces >
      • Seurat
      • Kollwitz
      • Guercino
      • Van Gogh
      • Leonardo
      • Michelangelo