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The role and evolution of revolutionary texts cannot be stressed enough. Printmaking rather than murals became a dominant force. The League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (LEAR) organized exhibitions and established schools for workers.
Wandering the urban streets of New York City, then later in her adopted city of Chicago, her chosen subjects appear as anonymous as she attempted to make herself. Ordinary, yes, banal, yes, but we can see, as Maier did, something extraordinary.
Escaping city life became the goal. In such a spirit, the colony of Worpswede was formed in Lower Saxony. Becker followed her future husband Otto Modersohn there, where writers and poets such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, accompanied by his wife, the sculptor Clara Westhoff, were frequent residents.
Socialist movements were the order of the day in 19th-century Germany. Rapid industrialization was replacing an agrarian economy at the common man and woman’s peril. Kollwitz responded.
Born within months of one another in 1876, Jack London in January and Tilden Daken in June, the painter and the writer, both 25 at the time, hit it off straight away. The westbound train was scheduled to arrive the following morning. That night, in the Reno railyard, London taught Tilden his rules of the road, the precarious practice of clinging to the brake beams inches above the track, or in the hobo vernacular, “riding the rods.”
Escapism is a major theme in Townley’s work and the driving inspiration for his art. He grew up in a small, rainy town in the north of England, so drawing sun-soaked landscapes in California was a way of escaping his environment.