There is a lecture given by Dave Hickey at Mica that disects the way people deal with this image of the Madonna and child. This early interpretations of this painting differs so much from the contemporary understanding of this painting. During modernism hickey brings up the point that we collectively become interested in works like these, because of formalism. In the 1800, he references humanism and the interaction between the Madonna and Child. Its interesting because you have once again used this image, struggling to understand the contemporary family through the citation of a very old theological one. That sends into question societies determenance to make families a very strict system when a family such as the one depicted differs quite alot from the typical family.
There is a lecture given by Dave Hickey at Mica that disects the way people deal with this image of the Madonna and child. This early interpretations of this painting differs so much from the contemporary understanding of this painting. During modernism hickey brings up the point that we collectively become interested in works like these, because of formalism. In the 1800, he references humanism and the interaction between the Madonna and Child. Its interesting because you have once again used this image, struggling to understand the contemporary family through the citation of a very old theological one. That sends into question societies determenance to make families a very strict system when a family such as the one depicted differs quite alot from the typical family.
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