Thursday, February 15, 2007

Picasso "Sisterhood"


I called this "Sisterhood". When I began to look at depictions of "Visitation" the meeting between Elizabeth and Mary, I noticed a great similarity with Picasso's drawing. The story on the drawing is that the woman on the left is wearing a hat from a VD hospital for women in Paris (early 1900's). The woman on the right has a baby and is pregnant. Two widely separated paths through life, but they are joined by compassion. One thinks, "there but for the grace of God go I", but I don't see even this much judgement in Picasso's work, just pure understanding compassion. Indeed, from God's perspective it is just, "there go I". Which applies to both. I did this drawing 9/3/06.

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