The Ups and Downs of life create moods and turmoil for all of us.
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, Two Studies for Self-Portrait, 1977, oil on canvas
"People have been dying around me like flies and I've had nobody else to paint but myself… I loathe my own face. One of the nicest things that Cocteau said was ‘Each day in the mirror I watch death at work.’ This is what one does to oneself.” - Francis Bacon, 1975 (http://keehuachee.blogspot.com)
"People have been dying around me like flies and I've had nobody else to paint but myself… I loathe my own face. One of the nicest things that Cocteau said was ‘Each day in the mirror I watch death at work.’ This is what one does to oneself.” - Francis Bacon, 1975 (http://keehuachee.blogspot.com)
Käthe Kollwitz
Woman with a dead child
(https://www.theguardian.com/)
This is Käthe Kollwitz’s most famous image of war. The picture’s edges press in on its subjects like the mother’s despair. Kollwitz's work represented the horror of war and was used to illustrate WWII. Her work was done in the early 20th century and reflected the tragedy of losing her son in WWI and the poverty and trauma that she saw as a doctor's wife in Berlin. "In July 1936, she and her husband were visited by the Gestapo, who threatened her with arrest and deportation to a Nazi concentration camp; they resolved to commit suicide if such a prospect became inevitable.[25] However, Kollwitz was by now a figure of international note, and no further action was taken." (https://en.wikipedia.org)
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