Wednesday 13 October 2021

Showing reflection and thought through pose and body language

 Auguste Rodin The Thinker (1904)

Rodin's Sculpture has been cast a number of times and there are multiple versions in different locations






Kathe Kollwitz

German Artist who depicted the struggle of life in Germany in the late Nineteenth Century and the first half of the 20th Century. Kollwitz and her family lived and grew up in an overcrowded district of Berlin full of cramped apartments with poor unsanitary conditions. Look at how she uses body language to communicate feelings and emotions












Thomas Eakins

The Thinker ;  Portrait of Louis N Kerton



Gustave Courbet -  Despair 1845


Vincent Van Gogh Old Man in Sorrow ( At Eternity's Gate) 1890