These 9 great works of art expressing maternal love have made many people cry

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It is said that this year is the Year of the Monkey, which is a rare good year, and many lovers began to make people last year. Coupled with the opening of the two-child policy, everyone is scrambling to give birth to monkeys. So this year you'll see pregnant mothers all over the streets. Today also want to give the majority of C friends Amway a good news, Miss C is also upgraded to quasi-mommy (sweet face), October to b always give birth to a monkey, now want to baby name think of the head are big ~ haha ~ ~

It is always said that only mothers are good in the world, and when you are pregnant, you really feel the weight of this sentence. In the past, I was a workaholic, and I was not afraid of how hard and tired entrepreneurship was, and I was full of morale when I thought of readers and my artistic dreams. Now after pregnancy, the hormones in your body will continue to change, in addition to controlling emotional changes, you also have to overcome the body shape of obesity caused by the shape of the sample, such as the nose becomes larger, the armpits become black, etc., easy to lack confidence.

In addition, the baby was not stable before, I had to go to the hospital every few days to check, this year there are many pregnant mothers, and the obstetric examination sometimes has to wait for half a day or a day. There are still many expectant mothers who can't take a b ultrasound in time, can't file a baby in the hospital, cry at the entrance of the hospital obstetrics department, and give birth to a baby is like a war, which is very sad. At this time, I realized that the greatest love in the world is none other than maternal love. I think of my mother, who raised me with hard work... After pregnancy, my body is not as good as before, said update on the update, want to stay up all night, sometimes late at night when the stomach is writing, the c baby in the stomach will continue to kick me, warm reminder "the baby is going to rest" ~

In the next three months, Art Dimension will not be updated regularly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, but it is guaranteed that each update will be heavy and weightless, and I will continue to provide exclusive art tips and art buying guides, etc., and will also invite high-level authors to write. There will also be two events in the next September ~ Please be quiet backstage! Also have a lot of support~

Nurturing is the subject of human beings' awe and expression. Since the theme of today's talk is related to pregnancy, in order to pay tribute to the beautiful mother-to-be, Miss C today combed through the art works in the history of art with the theme of pregnancy.

1 The First Introduction of mayan Pregnant Women Like Painted Clay Pots, Do You Think It's Strange? ▼

Mayan pregnant women are like painted clay pots

1450-1521 AD

Dimensions: Height 23.3cm, length 22.5cm, width 14.8cm

Site of excavation: Excavated along the Gulf Coast

Collection: Collection of the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico

Now the technology is bright, expectant mothers in the pregnancy of about 21 weeks to 24 weeks will take the four-dimensional color b ultrasound, check the baby's development, if not lucky to encounter deformity of the baby doctor will recommend induction of labor. But hundreds of years ago, due to the harsh living conditions, ancient human life was relatively short, and the infant mortality rate was also very high, so people often hoped to ensure the prosperity of the race through a large number of reproductive offspring, and maternal and infant themes were very common in primitive works of art.

A popular practice in Huasteca culture to create utensils in the form of female bodies, this clay pot depicts a pregnant woman sitting on her knees in a fertility pattern peculiar to local women, with geometric patterns related to fertility and the land.

2 This mom is breastfeeding ▼

Mother, Angelina and The Child Diego: August 1916, oil on canvas, 134.5x88.5 cm, Museum of Art Carrillo Gill. This work forms part of Rivera's Crystal Cubist period.

This was written by the famous Mexican painter Diego Rivera (1886-1957), one of the most prestigious muralists of the 20th century, and is regarded as a national treasure of Mexico. In the painting, the baby bites the mother's nipple and sucks, which means the growth of life. As a master muralist, Rivera has well balanced the relationship between content, form and concept in the mural, showing great skill in image depiction, color configuration and spatial processing, forming an artistic style that integrates Cubism, primitive style and pre-Columbian sculpture.

3 Klimt is a particular favorite artist of Miss C, he is also one of the top five artists of the 20th century, and he has created many nurturing themes in his lifetime. ▼

Klimt was a well-known Austrian symbolist painter who used decorative elements such as gold and silver foil to make the picture look sparkling and golden, and also made extensive use of sexual themes. For example, his most famous work is "Kiss".

Against a golden backdrop, a couple of lovers kiss passionately on the soft grass full of flowers. The man's hands gently and lovingly lifted the woman's head and were kissing her face passionately. The woman's left hand holds the man's right hand, her eyes closed, immersed in endless happiness and romantic imagination. The man's jet-black hair and dark skin highlight the man's robustness and masculinity, while the woman's fair skin and rosy lips show her delicate beauty.

4Which was this striking sculpture transported to? ▼

The sculpture depicts a pregnant woman naked, holding a long sword in her hand, and the skin on the side of her upper body is peeled off, revealing her skull, muscle lines and the fetus in her abdomen. The work was written by British artist Damien Hurst and named "Veriti", which was built in 1998 on the northeast island of Australia.

Damien Hearst is a major exponent of a new generation of British artists. He was interested in the finiteness of biological organisms. His signature work is "The Living Are Indifferent to the Dead," an 18-foot-long tiger shark kept in a glass cabinet with formaldehyde. The work was sold in 2004 at such a high price that Hirst ranked second among the highest-priced living artists.

5 This is "Freud's most tender painting", depicting Freud's maiden lover and her unborn child in her womb. ▼

Freud's The Pregnant Girl, written from 1960 to 1961

Lucian Michael Freud (1922–2011) was a British artist born in Germany and the grandson of the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud. He prefers portraits of people and nudes. The painting "Pregnant Girl" has not been seen in public since its creation was completed, until half a century later, in February 2016, it appeared at Sotheby's in London, with an estimated value of about 93.94 million yuan.

It also records little-known details of Freud's life: Freud fell in love with the woman in the painting and bore her two daughters in 1961 and 1963.

Freud with Bernardine Cavalli

Bernadine Kaffli moved to Morocco with her two daughters, and today one is a designer and one is a writer, and in 1992 published a novel based on his own experiences, North African Lover, which was released in 1998, starring Kate Winslet.

Pregnant women in front of 6 windows, this picture looks very sweet and warm. ▼

Jan Sodek Czech Republic 1963

This is Sodek's early romantic work. Looking at this photograph sometimes creates the illusion that there is a whisper in the silence. The windows, the sun, the nice hats, all of which she ignored. Her bulging belly caught her full attention, and her lower body was in the thick shade of paint. In his representation of the human body, Sodek discovers the universal form of life: sometimes lust, sometimes death, sometimes birth. This is a photo taken by Sodek for his pregnant wife.

By chance, Jane. Sodek read the collection of photographic works from the "House of Humanity" photographic exhibition, which deeply moved him and made him realize that photography would be the best tool for self-expression.

7 This work does not have the joy and joy of pregnant women and mothers in the past, but in exchange for a faint sadness▼

Pregnant Women On Drugs, Larry Clark, USA, 1971

Larry Clarke is an American cinematographer, film director, and writer born in 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Because his mother was a traveling photographer, she began to learn photography at a very young age.

He has long been concerned with problem teenagers, and his photographic works and films mostly focus on problem teenagers in extreme conditions. Clark portrays the pregnant woman's dedication in an almost sacred atmosphere, thus making the scene and the drug use itself even more shocking.

8 It is one of the most famous sculptures in the world in recent years. "Rapel Pregnant" is a statue of a pregnant woman with a severed arm, 4.7 meters high, written by British artist Mark Quinn. ▼

On August 30, 2012, at the opening ceremony of the London Paralympic Games, a replica of the famous British sculptor Mark Quinn's masterpiece "Pregnant Alison Rapp" was raised. The marble statue was based on the disabled woman Alison Rapel, who was 8 and a half months pregnant.

The protagonist of Pregnant Alison Rapp is British disabled artist Alison Rapp. This great woman was born with a disability, no arms, and her legs were only about 30 centimeters long, but she insisted on changing her life with photographs, paintings and other works of art, and overcame physical defects to conceive her own child. Her story has touched countless people, and the Queen of England also received her at Buckingham Palace.

9 This piece of work pregnant women and fetal babies is obviously seen, a bit like a transparent b ultrasound. ▼

Adrian Gottlieb was born in northeastern Vermont, USA. He is an internationally recognized realist artist who has devoted his life to figurative painting and is known as an artist who captures people's souls. His work still hangs in the Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington.

Artists always pay homage to the greatest things, so nurturing has always been the subject of artists' creations. Today's push is only the tip of the iceberg of the mother's love theme, welcome to leave a message to add ~

Before I got pregnant, I didn't know how to be a mom, as the baby beat in the stomach, I felt the breath of breathing with him, I slowly transformed to learn to be a qualified mother-to-be, this time I am very grateful for an app, through the article inside, let me grow.

This app is BabyTree Pregnancy. BabyTree is a professional parenting community platform in China, and has successively developed three apps for baby tree pregnancy, hour light, and baby tree beauty hoarding mother, so that parents can share valuable experience and learn parenting.

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