Mother with Child

Guayasamín's work draws attention, subtly, to the dramas of humanity, especially to those of the Latin American people, whose face is suffering and hands twisted by violence, poverty, dictatorships and not always explicit forms of control. What he saw in his travels in Latin America was a tempered and shy personality that he portrayed as a expressionist in his paintings. Within this same perspective, he created a series called "Tenderness" between late 1980's and late 1990's, composed of several paintings of mothers and children. "Mother with Child" is a tribute to the mother of the artist and to all the mothers of the world.