Public Art Pictures

The Sun, The Moon and One Star

Miros Chicago 1981

Joan Miro

Four Seasons 1974 - Marc Chagall

Earth

Picassos Chicago (the head of a woman) 1967 - Pablo Picasso

Monument with Standing Beast 1984 - Jean Dubuffet

Portrait of Olga Picasso & Son - Pablo Picasso

Different kind of lines straight and curved, thick and thin all over the painting that gave form to a woman and a baby. Using a contrast between the shadow of their faces and the color of the rest of the drawing, the author make us focus in their faces forgetting the rest of the body, which do not add something different to it. Also we can found a balance even though it is a baby and a woman, whose sizes are different, but in this case the woman is sitting holding the baby in her arms and legs, which gave the balance to the drawing. We can found the emphasis of this art piece in their faces, because as I said before that shadow in their faces make us focus right away there since we see the drawing.

This art piece brought me to my childhood and made me think in all the love that a mother has for her children, and how much she care about them. I think that's the intention of the author bring us to the picture and make us focus in their faces to put our faces there, yeah! to put my mother's face and myself. Even though he is using his family in the drawing he gave us that opportunity to be part of his creation, to be part of his artwork. For that reason I chose this drawing because since I saw it I thought in my mother, in our relationship and how close I feel to her in spite of the distant between us. I feel like that child in the drawing, in the arms and legs of my mother, who I know that love me with all her heart.

This drawing is simple but very significant at the same time for all the feelings that evoke in viewers. I think Picasso in all his paintings show us simple things that we often do not appreciate, and teach us how to look at them with different eyes, and get impress in spite of all the times that we have seen those things.