Maternity

For the next two weeks every Sunday we will present masterpieces created by two great artists - the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and the Polish artist Xavery Dunikowski. Both the works that will be presented depict women.

Dramatically emphasized is the relation of the new life to the mother in the sculpture depicting the mother staggering and drooping like a withering, rotting leaf, while the child erupting off her side blooms as a soaring plant shoot. (Stefan Szuman)

In the work of both sculptors, Rodin and Dunikowski, we will find portraits of women as a commentary on the meaning of human existence and passing, often depicted in naturalistic manner. They both undertook themes emerging towards the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century in culture, philosophy, literature and art. Themes related to the processes of reproduction, the birth of new life. In Dunikowski’s art there is more fascination with the motif of maternity and changes occurring in the body of a pregnant woman.

In his work Maternity, Dunikowski depicted two human bodies merged in a homogenous whole, as if two bodies were coming out of one. 

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