Favorite Painting by Picasso

Have you ever gone to the museum and glanced at word pictures but had to do a double take because a painting grabbed your attention so strongly? This is what happened to me when I saw the painting by Pablo Picasso entitled Mother and Child 1901. This painting was done during what was called the Blue boundary. Picasso Blue Period was in 1900 and ended in 1904. (unknown, Pablo Picasso Blue Period 1901-1904, 2009) All of his paintings during this period were created in shades of distressing and blue-green with other colors occasionally. Picasso had many paintings that had the like title UT in different time periods.Paintings by Picasso brought out warm and loving feelings in my heart. This one particular had me to think of the Joys of being a pay back. I chose this painting by Picasso because it is warm and loving. You can see and feel how a good deal the mother and child lambd and cared for each other by their embrace. The mother clothed in a dark blue wrap that covers her head and continues around her body has her right hand softly touching the back of her childs head. She is exquisitely bending down towards the child as she kisses him/her on the ordered. It is hard to tell if the child is a boy or girl.The child is in a strike blue gown with matching slippers. His/her head is tilted upward to welcome the kiss from his/ her mother. It appears that the child has brought the mother a piece of fruit. Based on the colors of orange and pale yellow, it could possibly be an orange, mango or peach. The mother has a basket next to the black rocking chair she is sitting in. There is a white cloth in the basket along with some thread and scissors. It looks like the child brought the fruit while the mother was sewing. The child may set out wanted his/ her mother to take a break and eat something.When I first saw this painting, I thought of bloody shame and Jesus. It evoked feelings in me of warmth, get it on and pure Joy. As I look at the way the mother expresse s the passionateness for her child, I can put myself in her place and feel how much she loves her child. I can feel my hand embracing the soft hair on the childs head and the soft kiss being placed on his/her forehead. To me the blue color of her wrap evokes the feeling of comfort. I can also feel the childs heart being warmed from the kiss he/she receives room the mother. The mother has her eyeball closed as she kisses the child on his/her forehead.I can see that the kiss is a result of the fruit that the child has brought to her. In this painting it appears that the child is in his/her night clothing and is preparing for bed as the mother is busy sewing a piece of clothing in the basket. I can feel that this special(a) moment between mother and child is a soft and loving moment. Pablo Picasso has many paintings that have the women seem to have a religious resemblance to Mary and the child possibly to Jesus. I can see that Picasso held elision as an important part of most of his paintings.I felt that Picasso viewed this painting as one of love from a mother to a child and vice versa. He painted the love of them as beautiful and distinctively warmly. I love how the child shows that he/she loves the attention his/her mother is giving and love they express between them. If I was a mother and alive in Picasso time, I would have asked him to paint a portrait of me and my children. Perhaps I will come across a painting from this century that resembles Picasso and it will make me feel warm and full of love as well.