Can you imagine yourself as the subject? | Wifredo Lam's "Mother and Child"
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- What compels you to pause in front of a work of art? Wifredo Lam’s “Mother and Child” stopped this artist and educator, intrigued at first by the lack of figurative features. Coming from a Mexican-American Catholic background, José Camacho found that the ambiguity offered an opening for others to insert themselves into the artwork.
“That’s what I like to explore in my art… shifting perspective so that those who don’t have power in our world are the ones that are seen as powerful.”
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y’all are rude i found this really moving!
What a profound misunderstanding of Lam. 'Mother and Child' motifs appear thousands of years before Catholicism. The colonial syncretism wasnt placed along side native religions, but a violent subjugation.
Thank you 👍
Wifrado Lam is my jam!
Interresting topics and admirable stories. But i know Even less now than i did before i watched the video.
No offense to the presenter, but I’m far more interested in facts about Wifredo Lam than I am with details of the presenter’s life.
I once chatted with a gallery owner in Pasadena (Agusto Lodi - Lodi Gallery) who knew Wifredo Lam personally and had some of his pieces and a few books from his shows. He told me that Wifredo was virtually painting and not eating well while in Cuba. He said that he deeply loved Picasso’s work and his friend’s told him that if he loved Picasso so much, he should go live with him. He rolled up his paintings and moved to Spain and went to Picasso’s home and showed him his work. Picasso, supposedly, set him up with a place to live and a studio. There are a lot of similarities in their approach to the abstract figures.