Giovanni Segantini, 1894 - The bad mothers - fine art print

Original artwork description by Belvedere (© Copyright - by Belvedere - Belvedere)

The painting, one of those images that the Vienna Secession had dedicated the country for the establishment of the Modern Gallery, belongs to the group of so-called 'Nirvana Images'. Segantini refers in this work on the poem 'Nirvana' by Luigi Illica in which explicitly expressed that it comes to women who have abortions. Segantini who sees the essence of the woman in her maternity, she points than women who lust gave themselves wanting to take without the consequences of motherhood and therefore purgatory to suffer. In an article in 'Ver Sacrum' Segantini himself speaks of the 'vain and sterile lustful' that he wanted to punish by 'the punishment in purgatory' painted. In the 'evil mothers' he reflects the suffering, the purification and the redemption of women in the same image. In the background one of the women to a tree is shown tied up trying to free themselves desperate to breastfeed her child, which she hears coming through the snow cover and to which it is connected by a road like an umbilical cord. The focus of the moment of hemostasis is shown, while in the image depth from the already shaded mountains dancing women have their children in their arms and turn to the sky. Segantini increases the intensity of the image by a striking and detailed naturalism. Because in addition to all symbolic content the light of these mountains is the dominant theme. His divisionism serves all the modulations of light over the snow surface, the ring of mountains and play in the evening sky, the glow on the skin of the woman or the show through the thin fabric of her gown. Impressive are tree body and to a single, formed from opposing swings Formarabeske to an expressive character. [Stephan Koja, in: Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Prestel museum guide, Munich et al 2001, p 135]

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In 1894 Giovanni Segantini created this work of art The bad mothers. The version of the artwork had the size: 105 x 200 cm - frame: 148 × 243 × 13 cm glazed. Oil on canvas was used by the European painter as the technique for the work of art. The painting has the following inscription: signed lower right: G. Segantini 1894. Moveover, this piece of art can be viewed in in the digital art collection of Belvedere, which is one of Europe's most famous museums with three locations that blends the experience of architecture and art in a unique way. This modern art artpiece, which belongs to the public domain is being supplied with courtesy of © Belvedere, Vienna, inventory number: 485. Creditline of the artwork: dedication Secession, Vienna, with the financial participation of art lovers in 1901. Further, the alignment is landscape with a ratio of 2 : 1, meaning that the length is two times longer than the width. Giovanni Segantini was a painter, whose artistic style can be classified as Post-Impressionism. The European artist was born in 1858 in Arco, Trento province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy and died at the age of 41 in the year 1899 in Pontresina, Graubunden, Switzerland.

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