The first love: mother and child paintings, a tribute to mothers

 

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By Cris A

I believe that a mother’s love is the first love that we have all experienced. Her love, no matter how different from what we see in movies or read in books or witness across the street, is the most unconditional kind. Strong, faithful and not even death can come between.

So in honor of these great women, our mothers, and their even greater love for us, I have chosen beautiful images, works of art, to celebrate this divine ldivine bond between mother and child to remind us all that no individual who walked this earth passed unloved. And to all the mothers who will pay this hub a visit, I am proud to tell you that I have one as remarkable as you in my house who still refuses to believe and accept that I am all grown up. I hope you all enjoy this little tribute. And oh, Happy Mother’s Day!

madonna litta (1450), leonardo da vinci

"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see — or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."

• Alice Walker

madonna with the long neck (1534), parmigianino

"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."

• Diana, Princess of Wales

midnight: the hours of the rat; mother and sleepy child (woodblock print) (1790), kitagawa utamaro

"Whenever I’m with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines."

• Amy Tan

mother roulin with her baby (1888), vincent van gogh

"If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much."

• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

mother and child (1893), edmund c. tarbell

"If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent."

• Bette Davis

mother and child (1905), gustav klimt

"Spend at least one Mother’s Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him."

• Erma Bombeck

motherhood angelina child (1916), diego rivera

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

• Anne Morrow Lindbergh

mother and child (1921), pablo picasso

"At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent."

• Golda Meir

mother and child (1931), tamara lempicka

"Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.’"

• Lillian Carter

mother holding baby (1986), keith haring

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."

• Sophia Loren