The Business of Nature
Size: 23cm x 30cm
Medium: Block Print
Septemer 2019
Exhibition Text
The Business of nature was inspired by "Hospital Visit" and "Solidarity" both by Kathe Kollwitz. Kathe art work brought up problems like war, loss or social problems. The “Hospital Visit” being one that showed loss and “Solidarity” bring up social issues. I wanted to bring up an issue that affects everyone. My art brings up the amount of power that companies have and what they are to the environment. The title of the piece is a play on words with something called "Nature of Business" and I just switched it around to show the other perspective of business.
Size: 23cm x 30cm
Medium: Block Print
Septemer 2019
Exhibition Text
The Business of nature was inspired by "Hospital Visit" and "Solidarity" both by Kathe Kollwitz. Kathe art work brought up problems like war, loss or social problems. The “Hospital Visit” being one that showed loss and “Solidarity” bring up social issues. I wanted to bring up an issue that affects everyone. My art brings up the amount of power that companies have and what they are to the environment. The title of the piece is a play on words with something called "Nature of Business" and I just switched it around to show the other perspective of business.
Inspiration
My inspiration for this german expression was from "Hospital Visit" and "Solidarity" made by Kathe Kollwitz. I first saw "Hospital Visit" in my art class last year. I choose "Hospital Visit" as one of my inspirations for its look of the background and the look of the people with shadow. Besides the look I wanted try to capture the way that Kathe brough big problem into pictures. Kathe art is of a women and child sitting next to a man who is laying down and most likely dying. She brings up death and how others look or feel during these types of moments. This art is the one I used the most as inspiration for my project.
I first saw "Solidarity" will researching Kathe Kollwitz for face references in block prints. I choose to us the piece of art as my inspiration for the references in the block print. I didn't really have much reasoning for choosing this one is the meaning and the reference. |
Hospital Visit by Kathe Kollwitz (made in 1867-1945)
Solidarity by Kathe Kollwitz (made in 1932)
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Planning
When I first started making my block print I wanted to bring up a problem that acts some or every person. I bought up businesses using the environment and how much power they have over it. I wanted to make the background able to show the amount or size of power that businesses had. So I chose a powerful and gantic place in nature like the mountains. After that it came down to find a way to show that power. I originally wanted to show a huge person making a black ooze or oil but it seemed too complex for my first time doing a block print. I decided to get rid of the oil and drill and go simpler and have a huge person reaching over a mountain trying to grab the water. I decide to it have the same problem being shown but with less of it being so obvious. I still tried to get my problem throughout the block print. |
Process
I sketched out the drawing being used then began to cut out the block starting with the mountains going side to side for an effect. I tried to make the sky the same background as the "Hospital Visit". For any part of the man I tried to move the tool side to side well moving it forward to give it a unique look.
While continuing the block print I tried adding small details to the person but I preferred it before without the small lines going through him. I finished the water and had a small part of black around his hand for it to be corruption of nature. After "finishing" the block print I tried to ink it but the cuts aren't deep especially around the mountains.
My Art |
Hospital Visit / Solidarity |
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Similarities
- Both trying to bring up big problems in time
Reflection
After completeing this block print I wanted to fix or redo some part to it. I'm fine with the background but I wish that I made the lines in the sky a little it thinner so it could be like Kathe art. I tried to make the sky the smae as the backround of the "Hopsital Visit" but I did each side on a different day which looks unconsistent. I also tried to do the same level of facial detail that Kathe Kollwitz but my did not end up the same as this artist.
Bibliography
Kollwitz, Kathe. “Kathe Kollwitz - Solidarity.” Paintings Reproductions - Handmade Reproductions of Famous Paintings - Museum Oil Paintings, https://en.wahooart.com/@@/8XYD68-Kathe Kollwitz-Solidarity.
“Käthe Kollwitz: MoMA.” The Museum of Modern Art, https://www.moma.org/artists/3201.
Kollwitz, Kathe. “Hospital Visit - Kathe Kollwitz.” Www.wikiart.org, https://www.wikiart.org/en/kathe-kollwitz/not_detected_235987.
“Käthe Kollwitz: MoMA.” The Museum of Modern Art, https://www.moma.org/artists/3201.
Kollwitz, Kathe. “Hospital Visit - Kathe Kollwitz.” Www.wikiart.org, https://www.wikiart.org/en/kathe-kollwitz/not_detected_235987.