Article: Justine Kurland: Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

The celebration of motherhood hasn't been a favored subject for artists since Impressionism and the early-twentieth-century movements on which its influence is immediately discernible. German Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, for example, is renowned for her intimate portraits of mothers and their children (which look back to Renaissance portraits of Mary and the infant Jesus), as well as for her nude self-portraits in nature. What is unique about her art is the visualization of a subjectivity that is decidedly feminine. Indeed, taken at face value, Modersohn-Becker's oeuvre portrays a modern-day cosmology with an entirely female cast of characters. She ...

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