Kunst

Question 1

Balthus

Answer 1

(1908-2001)

•Beloved by Picasso
•French-polish anti-modernist
•hated story telling pics
•young girls in gamy poses(pedophile? immorality-exploitation of girls)
•cat(totem animal)-same dreaminess as young girls
•Rilke was his mentor and mothers lover
•cult hero in French intellectuals
•dark claustrophobic settings
•”guitar lesson”( older woman-his mother-punishing young girl(on first draft the older person was a man—with open crotch- resembles a pieta-Christ held by Maria- so it was blasphemous
• pretended to be a polish count but was half Jewish and anti-Semitic himself
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W:”Dreaming Thèrese”(1938 MET)

Question 2

Käthe Kollwitz

Answer 2

1867-1945(East Prussia)

• German social realist
• imagery of mother and children bonded in poverty or facing unspecific threats
• father and uncle among founders of socialist party
• print making

W:”The Revolt of Weavers”(1893-97)”Peasant War”(1902-1908)