Lot description
Art critics point out that only in recent years did Filipino painters take up the theme of mother and child with definition and vigor. But it was the humantheme and not the Christian mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God who had a human mother. In effect, it is as if the Filipino painter never did take up the classic theme of Christendom but jumped in to humanize it into a depiction of the dominance of the mother in Filipino society. There were two sides to Ang Kiukok as far as his depictions of the mother and child theme are concerned: the religious side, as when Kiukok depicted the pieta, the anguished Mother and the Crucified; then there is the homelier depiction of the mother and child, with the oversimplified image of the mother cuddling the child in full embrace.
