Contemporary Allusion: The Art Of Being A Mother

Contemporary Allusion: The Art of Being a Mother

I am a mother, student, and now a history lover. I'm passionate about my children, my family, and books about people who disappeared centuries ago. My Mexican roots gave me the idea of furthering my knowledge on their culture and how woman played an important role. I, myself, been guilty of referring to Mexican men as “macho-men,” because decades ago men believed the woman should stay home and cook, as if that’s all woman were good for. Woman were underestimated. In these paper I will write about two pieces of art that Reflect the importance of motherhood. First I will expand on the sculpture in Mexico City following with the Egyptian sculpture. One is a monument, found in Mexico City, honoring

mothers. The second one is Isis nursing Horus. Were woman afraid to speak their mind? Were artist petrified to manifest woman? Many questions come to mind.
I came across a monument that magnetized me, I was attracted by the simplicity yet very complex image.

I felt as if I can relate to it by just seeing such a representational image, no words were needed for me. The role of a mother has been very present in my life. I am a child of a single parent.

Many years ago woman were not treated as equal and in the 1940’s things would change. The Monument to the Mother is a building in honor of mothers located in Mexico City and raised in the first half of the twentieth century. On May 10, 1944, then-President Manuel Avila Camacho placed the first stone of what would be the “Monumento a la Madre” (Mother monument) and was inaugurated by Miguel Aleman Valdes on May 10, 1949.

Mexico's history and its legends are full of episodes in which a mother has transcended either for their heroic acts or because their suffering brought them to punish eternally throughout the country weeping for her children; and the importance of mothers is not only in this area, every day pays tribute to Mexican mothers in different ways. Moreover, if that were not enough, every day we remember it or remember it to someone else when driving in the troubled streets of Mexico

City.
By 1944 the construction of which five years later became the Monument to the Mother began. Since May 10 had been Excelsior idea, a newspaper became involved in the project and in 1948 convened a contest to whoever the winner will design the sculptures that are on a base of the enclosure. And were the sculptures of Luis Ortiz Monasterio which were chosen to adorn the colossal monument.
It has a large square area where children can play, without using the street.

As if that were not enough, occasionally different markets for Mexican products, whether food, crafts or toys are mounted. One advantage is that just below the massive iron monument there is a large parking lot, so there is no need to walk far; besides that, just a few steps away is the Garden of Art. The wall, tower, and sculptures are based on a quarry site; place, typically a large deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted. It is formed by three sculptures; a man with Indian features in a position to write, a woman also with Indian features, with an ear of corn, which is the symbol of fertility and the largest figure is of a woman, a mother with a child in her arms with a long dress and shawl. It has a plaque with the inscription: “A la que nos amó antes de conocernos” which means; to her who loved us before we met, with opening date of May 10, 1949; this plate was added a second reading “Porque su maternidad fue voluntaria” meaning; For her motherhood was voluntary. Artists have materialized in stone, bronze, steel and other components. The sculptural-architectural theme has had different interpretations by Mexican artists in different cities. Both the monument and the square were restored in 2012 by the government of the Federal District, with restoration work, cleaning and

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