Born on two different sides of the world, Catlett and Kollwitz have become greatly known artist everywhere. Printmaking has been an art form that both Catlett and Kollwitz have used to express their art to the audience. The definition of printmaking is the artistic design and manufacture of prints, such as woodcuts or silk-screens. Some examples of these work is Harriet by Elizabeth Catlett and Outbreak by Kathe Kollwitz. Both artists have creative pieces of work in many different ways but also similar ways.Printmaking is a very difficult way of creating art but both artists seem to do that very well, but both in their own way. In Elizabeth Catletts Harriet she uses linocut. Other techniques that she uses are lithographs, serigraphs, and monoprints. Etching, aquatint, and soft ground were the techniques that Kollwitz used to capture the print Outbreak.Another, thing that both these prints have in common is the artists betray two strong women in their work of Harriet and Outbreak. In Kollwitzs Outbreak, which comes from a series called Peasants War, it portrays a Black woman, named Anne, who is leading the tortured laborers into battle against their oppressors. But who was Anne? Kollwitz says, I continued to represent to seek to get out of me- to search for the image of women revolutionary. Black Anne supplied me, at last, with the historical personage for this purpose. I used my own likeness for the preliminary drawings for Black Anne herself. The peasants in the background she says are the depriving people that didnt have the use of free meadows and woodland, which denied them of their established right. So the strong women Anne and her followers are going to war against their lords and the repressive Roman Catholic Church, a large landowner, to take back their civil rights and their freedom.Just like Kollwitzs work Catletts portrays a heroic woman Harriet Tubman, with her followers in her command. Harriet was a fifteen series of linoleum cuts called The Negro Women. Catlett indentified each of her subjects by saying, "I am the Negro woman. I have always worked hard in America. . . . In the Fields. . . . In other folks' homes. . . . I have given the world my songs. In Sojourner Truth I fought for the rights of women as well as Negroes. In Harriet Tubman I helped hundreds to freedom. In Phillis Wheatley I proved intellectual equality in the midst of slavery. My role has been important in the struggle to organize the unorganized. I have studied in ever increasing numbers. My reward has been bars between me and the rest of the land. I have special reservations. . . . Special houses. . . . And a special fear for my loved ones. My right is a future...
