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Showing posts with label about mother's day. Show all posts
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Paintings Of Mom by 33 Famous Artists For Mother's Day.




In honor of Mother's Day, I wanted to re-run one of my favorite original posts. "Famous Artists Paint Their Mothers" are thirty-three portraits of the female forebearers of various respected and well-known painters. The portraits range from the 15th century to the present* - excluding paintings of The Madonna, arguably the most famous of all mothers.

Most artists, at one time or another, have painted a portrait of the woman from whose womb they sprang. Some are flattering, some are not and others are very personal or intimate -- yet all are an homage to the parent whose role we celebrate today, Sunday, May 13th.

There are so many, I'd originally broken this up into two posts, but today I am featuring all of them in one post - paintings of artists' mothers prior to the 20th century by the likes of Whistler, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Picasso as well as more recent homages to Mom by such artists as Rockwell, Wood, Hopper, Dali, Hockney, and Warhol.

A good place to start would be with the world's most well-known "Mother" artwork, that of by James McNeill Whistler, painted in 1871:

above: James McNeill Whistler, Whistler's Mother 1871, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

The following portraits are presented in chronological order from the earliest to the most recent. While it's true that many of these artists painted multiple sittings of their mothers (e.g. Lautrec, Cassat, and Cezanne), I chose to share those I found to be the most compelling.

Albrecht Durer, portrait of Barbara Durere, the artist's mother, 1490:

Guido Reni, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1612:

Rembrandt, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1630:

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Portrait (sketch) of Lucy Lawrence, the Artist's mother, 1797:

Alfred Rethel, portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1836:

Camille Corot, Madame Corot, the Artist's Mother, Born Marie-Francoise Oberson, 1838:

Pierre Renoir, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1860:

Paul Cezanne, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1866-67:

Mary Cassat, the Artist's Mother reading Le Figaro, 1878:

Edouard Manet, Mother in the garden at Bellevue, 1880:
Georges Seurat, Aquatint of the artist's mother, 1883:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Countess Adele Zoe de Toulouse Lautrec, The Artist's Mother, 1883:

Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, October, 1888:

Paul Gauguin, Portrait of Aline Gauguin, 1890:

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1896:

Edvard Much, The Dead Mother (the artist's mother died when he was five from tuberculosis), 1899:

Franz Marc, portrait of his mother, 1902:

Georgio di Chirico, portrait of the artist's mother, 1911:

Egon Shiele, Mother Sleeping, 1911:

Juan Gris, portrait of the artist's mother, 1912:

Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper, the artist's mother, 1916:

Salvador Dali, portrait of the artist's mother, 1920:

Norman Rockwell's Mother Tucking Children Into Bed (for which his mother Irene was the model), 1921:

Grant Wood, Woman With Plants (his mother), 1929:

Arshile Gorky, portrait of the artist's mother, 1936:

William H. Johnson, Mom Alice, 1944:

Alice Neel, My Mother, 1952:

Lucian Freud, The Painter's Mother, 1973:

Andy Warhol, silkscreen of his mother, Julia Warhola, 1974 :

David Hockney, Mum, 1985:

Daphne Todd, Last Portrait Of Mother, 2009:

David Kassan, portrait of the artist's mother, 2010:


*You will note there are very few, if any, portraits artist's mothers in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries because so much art at that time was dominated by religious paintings and portraits commissioned by the wealthy.

Happy Mother's Day!

Interesting Facts, Figures, and Tidbits About Mothers And Motherhood




Here are a bunch of interesting statistics about Mothers and Mother's Day for you from the US Census Bureau:

The first Mother’s Day observance was a church service in 1908 requested by Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, to honor her deceased mother. Jarvis, at an early age, had heard her mother express hope that a day to commemorate all mothers would be established. Her mother had also expressed the sentiment that there were many days dedicated to men but none to mothers. Two years after her mother’s death, Jarvis and friends began a letter-writing campaign to declare a national Mother’s Day observance to honor mothers. In 1914, Congress passed legislation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

82.5 million
the estimated number of mothers of all ages in the United States. (From unpublished Survey of Income and Program Participation data.)

68%
Percentage of women in Mississippi, ages 15 to 44, who are mothers. This is among the highest rates among states. The national average is 56 percent.

82%
Percentage of women 40 to 44 years old who are mothers. In 1976, 90 percent of women in that age group were mothers.

New Moms

4.0 million
Number of women who have babies each year. Of this number, about 425,000 are teens ages 15 to 19, and more than 100,000 are age 40 or over.

25.1

Average age of women when they give birth for the first time [PDF] — a record high. The average age has risen nearly four years since 1970.

40%
Percentage of births that are the mother’s first [PDF]. Another 32 percent are the second-born; 17 percent, third; and 11 percent, fourth or more.

35,000
Number of births in 2002 [PDF] attended by physicians, midwives or others that do not occur in hospitals.

Remembering Mom

above flowers designed and photographed by Sean Alvarez

23,094
Number of florists nationwide in 2002. The florists’ 119,117 employees will be especially busy preparing, selling and delivering floral arrangements for Mother’s Day.

The flowers bought for mom probably were grown in California or Colombia. Among the 36 surveyed states, California was the leading provider of cut flowers in 2003, accounting for more than two-thirds of the domestic production ($306 million out of $425 million) in those states. Meanwhile, the value of U.S. imports of cut flowers and fresh flower buds in 2004 from Colombia, the leading foreign supplier to the United States, was more than $385 million.

$5 billion

Revenue of greeting-card publishers nationwide in 2002. The 15,859 employees of the 119 greeting-card publishing companies are especially busy creating Mother’s Day greeting cards.

152 million
Number of Mother’s Day cards expected to be given this year in the United States, making Mother’s Day the third-largest card-sending occasion.
(Source: Hallmark research)

1-in-32
The odds of a woman delivering twins. Her odds of having triplets or other multiple births was approximately 1-in-540.


Single Moms

10 million
The number of single mothers living with children under 18 years old, up from 3 million in 1970.

Expectant Mothers

August
The most popular month in which to have a baby, with 359,000 births taking place that month in 2002. July, with 358,000, was just a shade behind.

Tuesday
The most popular day of the week in which to have a baby, with an average of almost 13,000 births taking place on Tuesdays during 2002.

How Many Children

2
Average number of children that women today can expect to have in their lifetime.

3
Average number of children that women in Utah and Alaska can expect to have in their lifetime. These two states top the nation in average number of births per woman.

Only about 10 percent of women today end their childbearing years with four or more children- that compares with 36 percent in 1976.

Working Moms


55%
Among mothers with infant children in 2002, the percentage in the labor force, down from a record 59 percent in 1998. This marks the first significant decline in this rate since the Census Bureau began calculating this measure in 1976. In that year, 31 percent of mothers with infants were in the labor force.

63%
Among college-educated women with infant children, the percentage in the labor force.

Among mothers between ages 15 and 44 who do not have infants, 72 percent are in the labor force.

More than 687,000
Number of child day-care centers across the country in 2002. These include nearly 69,000 centers employing close to 750,000 workers and another 618,000 self-employed persons or other companies without paid employees. Many mothers turn to these centers to help juggle motherhood and career.

About 2 million
Among more than 10 million preschoolers, the number who are cared for in a day-care center during the bulk of their mother’s working hours.

Individual source links for each statement herein may be accessed on the Internet at
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/004109.html>.

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