Humans have been
creating images of mothers since men, and of course women, who crudely etched with
a jagged rock on the walls of caves. Through the centuries European artists
like Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Claude Monet, and Gustav
Klimpt to American artists such as James Whistler to Norman Rockwell painted
portraits of mothers.
Dorothea
Lange’s camera lens captured the destitution in the iconic 1936 black
and white photo of Florence Thompson, known as
the Migrant Mother; and Annie Leibovitz shocked the public with her
controversial photos of pregnant celebrities posing in the nude.
And of course, last but
certainly not least the many renditions of the most famous mom of all, the
Virgin Mary’s images discovered from the early centuries in Rome and Syria.
Images of mothers continue and today are
lovingly and respectfully honored on bottles of fine wine.
