Girl Before A Mirror, Pablo Picasso, 1932, MOMA, New York Mother and Child, Mary Cassatt, 1890, Private Collection A Mother’s Pride, Steve Hanks

Cultural Context Cassatt: Female, American painter and printmaker. Living in a high social standing family. She was taught to prepare well for the marriage life at school. When she was 11, she was invited to the famous exhibition in Frence which left her loves to follow the art path. She decided to go to Paris to study art despite her family’s objection. Later on, she was invited to join impressionist by Edgar Degas which brought to her a completely new inspritation to paint motherhood artworks. Steve Hanks: Male, watercolor artist, born in a military family in San Diego. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in San Franciso, was excellent in commercial art and figure drawing. He got married to Laura and his three children became a new inspiration in his art. Pablo Picasso: Male, Spanish painter, scultor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer. His father was a painter and taught Picasso on how to do art when he was a child. From that time, Picasso began to go on his art path. He was the first one who invented Cubism inspired by the volumetric treatment form bu the French postimpressionist artist Paul Cezannce. Motherhood painting was inspired by his life when he got married to Olga Koklova and became a father of his first child.

The painting looks very realistic. A very detail figure drawin The faces are obscured or heading to another direction. The play of light express well in the painting especially: The mother often seen wearing lacy dress and the light shines through giving a transparent look. The sunlight is reflected on the skin of the figures and also the hair. Color rendering in the area that receive sunlight. He didn’t show much about the facial expression because the figues are doing it all. The act of holding the ababies in their lap, touching them is showing the loves. His painting gives such an emotional feeling of the love of the mothers towards their kids.

Painted during the Blue Period. Figure reflects a feeling of sad, pensive and poverty. The mood is upsetting and a bit of unnerving. Cool palette: grey, blue-gray. The mother is kissing her son showing the loves but both of their facial expressions seem to be unhapy, suffering which present a furture of separations. Glostly and scary images. Giving depth at the background: a horizontal lines between the brown and blue-grey color. Metermidad (Mother and Child), Pablo Picasso (1901). Painted during Rose Period Warm color palette: catchy red-orange color and pink The figures show a feeling of listlessness and blank stares. The theme Picasso picked is isolation and discontent. Each figure looking in different sides showing the viewers that they are having a cold war. Madre e hijo salimbanquis (Mother and Child Acrobats), Picasso (1905)