Madonna with a child

The image is updated in a provocative way by the traditional Christian iconographic scheme in terms of present. Madonna as a symbol of caring mother and motherhood is undergoing painting and content revisions. It is an expressive distressing composition (the opposite of traditionally calming the Madonna), in which the author emphasizes the dynamic and pathetic "uncertainty of the seen". We have a familiar theme where something is fundamentally disconnected and does not fit meaning. The image is the color of the bodies as if in a schizophrenic way horizontally divided into two planes, the lower red, upper magenta (key for Typlet!). Both characters face a side wind that is reflected in the deformation of hairstyles. The gesture of the mother and the child is complicated. Mother lacks a face. This is covered by hair, a distinctive attribute of femininity, which can involuntarily refer to the biblical figure of Maří Magdalena, associated with temptation and sin. Also, the child's attribute does not fit. It reminds more of a curious adolescent than a symbol of innocence. The mother's gesture is much wider, as if referring to the absence of an adult, or bypasses of a partner that is not lacking. He irritates the ambiguity of the well -known scene with a subliminal reference to the break -up of the family and the loneliness of the characters in the level of an excessive ego. Especially when the author asks about this work, "Is this still love?"

Lyrics: Petr Vaňous, curator