Our World

#74005     29 X 42″     mmp

• Picasso: “Horse’s Head”, 1937
• Miro: Personnage devant la Nature”, 1973. Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Bartolomeo Vivarini: “Virgin and Child”, ca. 1470.
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Clashing symbols of our time, left to right – politics: a silhouette of Giscard d’Estaing. The underworld: a mafia godfather. War strife, famine, lawlessness: Picasso’s shrieking Guernica horse. Maturity, family life, constancy, piety, devotion: a Renaissance Madonna. The Miro dragon in the red sky is another evil omen. On balance, the Madonna values are overpowered, chewed up – but somehow still surviving.

by Lawrance Jeppson