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Munch completed the work after visiting the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, where he saw a woman crying for her child with the disease. The baby in the painting is lifeless, pale and covered in spots. The mother, whose hands and patterned skirt are especially prominent, has a tearful red face and sits on a bench in front of a green background.
The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1874 by French artist Gustave Doré.It represents a family of acrobats, who work in a circus, struck by a tragedy: their son, mortally wounded in the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope walking performance.
The drawing is the only extant larger-scale drawing by the artist. [3] The drawing depicts the Virgin Mary seated on the thigh of her mother, Saint Anne, while holding the Christ Child as Christ's young cousin, John the Baptist, stands to the right. It currently hangs in the National Gallery in London.
71. MOTHER COMBING HER CHILD'S HAIR. Sm. 33, 4, 67; de G. 5. [1] In a homely bedroom sits a woman in profile to the right. She wears a red blouse and blue skirt, and is de-lousing her daughter's hair who kneels before her with her head in her lap. Behind her is an elevated, recessed bed with curtains; a child's chair stands in
With a sober look, the woman faces the child. Despite the use of vivid colors, the picture looks rather dark. The style of this work is a reflection of the radical transformation that Beckmann experienced since 1914, disturbed by the horrors of war, which led him to radical expressionism .
Death and the Child is a composition created by Edvard Munch in 1889. [1] [2] Since 1918 it is located in the Kunsthalle Bremen. It depicts a little girl at her mother’s deathbed who is looking at the viewer in a fearful manner. A second, thus far unknown painting of the artist was discovered underneath the canvas in 2005.
Disturbing body camera footage captured a Missouri mom lunging at police officers while holding her 2-month-old infant — moments before police shot and killed the mother and child.
Woman With Dead Child is a 1903 etching by Käthe Kollwitz. Its subject was influenced by her experiences in an underserved sector of Berlin as a physician's wife where disease and infant mortality rate were high. [1] The image is often considered as Käthe Kollwitz's most famous depiction of war. [2]