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Oil on canvas
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114 x 146 cm
Year: 2004In the history of art images of motherhood have been led by idealisation and condescension, but this is not the case with Jorge Rando. This picture, which shows a woman sitting, evokes an undeniable intimacy, her features are hard and aged, the thick black lines offset the lack of colour, giving the observer a deep sense of sadness. I paint pain because I want to appeal to love, the master has said about the harshness of his subjects. -
Oil on canvas
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130 x 97 cm
Year: 2004This Motherhood is strong, forceful, powerful, pathetic, with echoes of a Byzantine icon by Theotokos (Mother of God) in its sorrowful and severe expression, amid its expressionist resolution. Motherhood is an icon of mystery that comes to us from ancient times, from the expectant Venus of the Paleolithic age to the present. Jorge Rando has contributed his Maternidades cycle to this artistic interpretation of the mystery of human procreation. -
Oil on canvas
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130 x 162 cm
Year: 2004In this work the artist seems to capture a moment, just like a photograph, as if he were watching and expressing an action that lasted only an instant. The green, magenta and black fight to occupy the space. This work of Motherhood does not show a soft side but rather a state of alertness; while the child looks with a gesture of surprise and curiosity at whoever is on the other side of the canvas, the mother has her arm around her son’s body in a protective attitude, as if to stop him from approaching the person who is watching. -
Oil on canvas
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116 x 89 cm
Year: 2002In much of the cycle on the theme of motherhood, the master shows us the mother and child strongly united by a feeling of sympathy… maybe of suffering… maybe of defensiveness… maybe of hope. -
Ink-watercolour
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30 x 30 cm
Year: 2006-2007
To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties. -
Ink-watercolour
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25,5 x 25,5 cm
Year: 2007
To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.
The expressive force is principally defined by the colour and profiled by thick strokes. The compositions of vertical formats of the start of the cycle head towards a contained abstraction that speaks of pain and dignity.
Jorge Rando does not show a complacent motherhood; the harmony of the colours and the serenity of the composition confront the harshness of the faces. His painting on the canvas brings together solitude and the protection of the arm, the restless gaze of a child with the look of resignation of a mother, giving those who are observing them a multiplicity of views.
The painter in his human and social condition extracts the beauty of unconditional love, to present it before the injustice of uncertain destinies, of denied futures, of the necessary escapes while always clinging to a small hand. Maternities starts from respect and tenderness, with ageing, tense, hieratic mothers, but as the chromaticity and the composition evolve, bright whites are introduced in a perfect symbiosis of the iconographic tradition of the Virgin and Child and a loaded social meaning. Maternities are moments…. Lovely scenes of sad mothers.
In my motherhoods I always show the mother as alert and wary. She protects her child with her love. LOVE converted into a shield and lance.Jorge Rando