Madonnas

The exhibition “Madonnas” offers an opportunity to admire the ideal image of mother and child and the special closeness of their relationship. In addition, it brings to attention the relation of this subject to the cult of Virgin Mary as Mother of God, common in Catholicism, allowing to explore works of religious content. A more somber mood comes with the image of woman that appeared in Latvian art during World War I - the suffering mother, who, having lost her children, relatives and home, turns from the guardian of the family hearth to a solitary, plagued by grief. Finally, the outlook of Latvian women-artists of the late 20th century reveals that becoming a mother comes with self-sacrifice, physical pain and encounters with existential angst.