Flesh and Blood
The bonds between human beings can be directly associated with lineage and ancestry or they can be more widely linked to the kinship of shared ideologies.
Paternal sensitivities and fraternal loyalties, when deeply felt towards our own children, and to our own siblings, can highten our awareness of the notion of ‘family’ in a much more global sense.
Within painting, a father and child is not used as a symbolic image as often as a mother and child, perhaps this taps too deeply into the issue of male vulnerability.
Very often the symbolic images of comradeship and brotherhood also tend to be associated with fighting physical or metaphorical battles, rather than occasionally celebrating it for its own sake.
Paternal sensitivities and fraternal loyalties, when deeply felt towards our own children, and to our own siblings, can highten our awareness of the notion of ‘family’ in a much more global sense.
Within painting, a father and child is not used as a symbolic image as often as a mother and child, perhaps this taps too deeply into the issue of male vulnerability.
Very often the symbolic images of comradeship and brotherhood also tend to be associated with fighting physical or metaphorical battles, rather than occasionally celebrating it for its own sake.