This week in Year 6, children have been making portrait’s of emotions that someone in World War 2 (or 1) might have felt during the war. The drawings are based off the drawing style of German artist Käthe Kollwitz from the 1860’s to the 1940’s which was when WW2 occurred.
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.
The children have done very well at expressing the emotions that were felt in the war.