Infant Mortality Critique

            The image that will be used is called “Infant Mortality” by Kollwitz.  This image shows a parent holding a small coffin with a baby inside it.

            Judging this image by a “Imitational” point of view, this image does not look realistic in any way. You can see the shapes made in the image and see that it forms a person and a small coffin, but it’s are only made with white lines which is not realistic. There are too many dark spaces around the eyeballs and you cannot see any body formed of the person. The coffin also does not look like a rectangular box because there are no outer lines to form an enclosed box. Realistically, the coffin looks like a bunch of different sized sticks floating over the parent’s hands.

            Judging the image “Formally” would be considered an average piece of art. Using the element of line doesn’t make the image complicated, and easy to understand. Not much shape and colour is shown in the image. There is no background to it and the body of the parent is also missing. Showing depth in the face shows the mood of the parent, which is weakness.

            "Emotionalism" show in the image would be graded a 5 out of 4 because of the many different types of expressions this image has. The large dark spaces around the whole parts of the face show a dark side of this parent. The face made as a skeletal form shows sorrow.  The boney skeletal hands the parent has also shows misery and despair as the hands hold the baby’s coffin. Showing a skeletal face and pair of hands shows weakness, as if the parent has nothing to live for anymore.