Artist research

This self portrait of myself is related to Kathe Kollwitz's artwork and my research about her because I made it trying to represent a sense of dispare or some sort of depression because many of her works of art included those types of facial expressions or themes. I tried to look depressed in my self portrait just as she did in many of her self portraits. The way I shaded my self portrait also looks very similar to her self portraits, where there is also a lot of darkness, as if trying to make it seem more depressing. This depressing look or expression was a way of her to show the miseries of human life that she felt she needed to show the world through artwork.