These were and are still my role models.
They believed and expressed the Truth they experienced, as I do.
Frieda Kahlo transcended her incredible suffering by going back to her
spiritual roots to create unforgettable art. Goya doing Etchings of the
suffering of the 100 years war, survived the Inquisition because he was
the kings’ first painter. Irven Petlan did the most incredibly beautiful
paintings of one of our worst ‘mistakes’: the Vietnam war. Kathe
Kolwitz did etchings and paintings of the starving workers and their
families on strike for starvation wages, while bearing two sons (one
died in the WW I and her grandson in WW II). Bernard Heisig
working under the Eastern German communist occupiers, created the
most beautiful paintings of heart-rending, archetypal scenes. Van
Gogh, a man few could get close to, just wanted people to know his
sensitive (and loving) heart (from his letters I picked up in a used book
store while a student at the U. of Munich).
These were and are still my role models. They believed and expressed
the Truth they experienced, as I do.