More than just the gaunt and haunted facial expressions, it permeates body language. In a way, Kollwitz is in part just a fine political cartoonist. But the pathos soaks so deeply as to personalize the narrative and connect you directly to the emotion. Rouault's heavily outlined compositions carry nothing like this emotional weight, and next to Kollwitz' images the eye dives happily into the formal treatment of color and surface. If you want to get right up close to examine Kollwitz' prints, Rouault's are best seen across the room.
Feeling is thought through first, then imbedded.
Russell Forester is a prolific artist who lives near San Diego. He has been creating abstract paintings, drawings and sculptures since the 1950's, but is the first opportunity locally to see and evaluate the scope of his endeavors. Hillary Brace 's works look like they were made in a different era. She is not at all concerned with issues relating to post-modernism or abstraction. Rather she carefully draws what she sees or what she imagines the sky to look like.