"Madonna & Child"

This painting is done in the style of an Icon;

I insert just the painting.  The first in my Mother and Child series.

The original "Mother & Child" painting.

Here is my painting "Madonna & Child" shown with my wife Liz, my daughter Sevanne, and a beloved friend Magic.  This photo was taken by my good friend Ray Hitchcock at my show at the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park, San Diego, California in 2010.

The painting is in the style of a Christian Icon.  It was inspired by my wife who is Armenian.  I was and am attracted to her strong warm heart.  So this painting and this picture ( thank you Ray ) are from the Heart.

My painting "Madonna & Child";

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"Waking up" tries to use colors available in Paleolithic times.  Oxides.  This is a small painting used to experiment with this palette and new patterns. I will use the results of this painting for larger paintings now in progress.

In earlier paintings available for viewing at www.pantarhea.com, I focused on innovating patterns with the "subject matter" being secondary.  In my "Mother & Child" series the intimacy of the "subject matter" is primary, with patterns designed to enhance this mood.

Well, there is hunting? Perhaps puttering around like a Silver Back?  Combat?  Art? Attraction, yes, enchantment, yes, intimacy yes, sex yes, impregnation?  Were men sure of this?  Some say no.  Ah, but there are adoring children?  Back to Art;  My painting "Waking up";

Mother & Child Painting

The daily consciousness of matriarchal society?  Intimate, grounded, protective.  A habit of daily life that includes impregnation, gestation, birth, nursing.  What does a man do?

My second attempt at a Blog

December 14, 2012.  I am going to display my process and ideas.  In the last few years I have been painting "Mother and Child" subjects for my paintings, and have been interested in the work of Marija Gimbutas, an Archaeologist, who was a professor at UCLA.  She focused on "Old Europe" and published her ideas in a book entitled "The Language of the Goddess".  I have used her work to draw on Paleolithic patterns and meanings in my artwork.