Word: madonnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother and Child, Amen departs sharply from the traditional Madonna ideal. While the plump infant grasps for her breast, the mother appears gaunt; and the multitude of lines evoking the forms of her collar-bone, neck and face seem to suggest a network of veins to her breast. The hint of despair in her eye reinforces the impression that she is being sucked dry by her thoughtless, greedy child. In its bitter message, stated with subtlety and thoughtfulness, this work provides a revealing antithesis to the view of children implicit in Amen's prettified prints like To Wonder...
...stands today, there is simply not enough stuff available, so anything goes. Career girls and young couples invariably start with a 'genuine' baroque angel cum gilded wings. A stabilized bank account calls for a Biedermeier dining-room set. The first sign of real affluence is a Gothic Madonna-polychrome for beginners, and Riemenschneider brown for the sophisticated. Real collecting comes later...
...paintings in his estate include a Sassetta altarpiece and a Domenico Veneziano madonna, the combined market value of which is close to $1,750,000, and about 50 other paintings of less spectacular value, but of high artistic importance...
...Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Life is harsh, but the living of it sweet, in this island idyl of the wine-dark sea by one of Greece's finest novelists...
...Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Life is harsh, but the living of it sweet, in this island idyl of the wine-dark sea by one of Greece's finest novelists...