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 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.
