Mother and Child
1955
by Osawaldo Guayasamin
from Ecuador
Drawing
Oswaldo Guayasamin. Art Museum of the Americas collection.
Permitted Fair Use. Art Museum of the Americas, OAS.
Oswaldo Guayasamin is an Ecuadorian artist whose artworks oftentimes depict lives of Latin American people in the cubist style.
Oswaldo Guayasamin is an Ecuadorian artist whose artworks oftentimes depict lives of Latin American people in the cubist style. His artworks touch on themes of culture, feelings, and social inequality in Latin America and all around the world. The artists traveled through Latin America and created artworks based on his witnesses during the trip. Such experience helped the artist to expand his narrative in art to give voices to underrepresented population from the Latin American region and other parts of the world.
This particular painting, Mother and Child, comes from Guayasamin’s 1955 solo exhibition. It delineates a mother cradling a small infant and helplessly looking up to the sky while the baby is reaching for the mother’s undernourished breast. Their gestures of raised heads echo with each other, signifying women and children's struggles to survive and to support families in the midst of difficulties.
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