Moms have connected the past to the present

Loves without explanation

Between siblings and sisters, there are often fierce competition and struggle between them – whose academic achievements are higher, which is more successful in after -school activities. The relationship between husband and wife also experiences difficulties that friends are inevitable. And here’s the connection between mom and child, poets in poets, songs singing more than once – the only one so pure and unlucky.

« After all, no one will ever love more than a mom, » I remember a man who gave me life every time to my daughters. Then, for the hundredth time, I ask myself a question, to which the answer seems to be self -evident, but it is difficult to say in words. What did I loved my mom? What do my kids love me?

« For us all for us, » the thoughts of my only and unique works sounded in other children and their work hanging on the walls of the Lithuanian Education Museum presenting the exhibition « Mother and Child ».

Eight -year -old Dom and Mingail, two years younger, painted her mom Ilona with short, squirrel fur with her hair and thanked her for her care. Fourteen -year -old Mint – for a smile, shot and fifteen -year -old Claudia. For a decade, Emil was most stuck with his mother’s eyes, which he highlighted with brown and a horse tail with a black pencil.

The term: Mother and Child Exhibition will be open until June 28 at the Lithuanian Education Museum. Photo by Edgar Cickiewicz

The interwar moms will speak

The corridor of children living in Kaunas Family Crisis Center – into another space of the museum, shared by today’s creators and last time lights: women politicians, women publicists, women teachers and women moms.

« The essential purpose of the exhibition is to present the relationship between mother and child, their closeness in the works of contemporary women, artists and to look at these topics from a historical perspective, » Karolina Jociūtė, the curator of the historical part of the exhibition « Mother and Child », pointed out heroes. – These are prominent women, guardians, educators. They combine motherhood with personal ambitions, with the desire to pursue science and career heights equivalently. ”

The historic exposition presents actress and director Unė Babickaitė with her mother Agota, journalist and educator Vincenta Lozoraitienė with son Kazys, public figure, writer Jadvyga Tūbelienė, wife of Aleksandras Stulginskis Ona Matulaitytė-Stulginskienė and other interwar women. Alongside the literature and press publications of that time.

We chose the interwar period by accident. At that time, women’s organizations were abundant as ever. One of their main axes was the help of women and children.

« We chose the interwar period by accident. At that time, women’s organizations were more than ever.

According to the museum, the historical challenge, according to the museum artist, began to be celebrated during the interwar period in 1928. The initiators of this idea were members of the Lithuanian Catholic Women’s Society, who were to devote his mother’s role to the first Sunday in May. Mother’s Day started to celebrate interwar Lithuania was popularized by various religious and public organizations and educational institutions. This is evidenced by the photographs that stop the moments from the Mother’s Day ceremony in the kindergarten of the Šiauliai branch of the Lithuanian Child or Antanas Žmuidzinavičius Garden, near the fountain.

Everyday miracles

At the exhibition « Mother and Child », the historical heritage and contemporary art of interwar Lithuania, represented by six creators, meet. Margarita Adomavičienė, Anastasia Janiukštė, Kristina Gedminaitė, Karolina Markauskienė, Austė Skardžiukaitė-Kabašinskienė and Dalia Gelminienė talk about the intimacy of maternity, the fragility, strength and silence of everyday life.

« Very personal work. Why? The son chose the violin because I played it – » K. Gedminaitė went closer to the painting that stopped the first time with the musical instrument. « Dadar looks like our daily routine. He plays,

Kristina presented six works for the exhibition, where not only her son Adam could be found. In the smallest canvas of the creator, a self -portrait, the largest is a woman, like a Sistine Madonna, between lush foliage, with life under the heart.

« There was no idea to paint a pregnant woman. But when I finished my work, I retreated and realized that I did not, » Gedminaitė measured the painting, which, unlike others, was the first.

Tandem: The youngest co -authors of the exhibition – children living in the Crisis Crisis Center in Kaunas, also illustrated love for moms. Photo by Edgar Cickiewicz

Thoughts and morals

Different in their lives, the authors of the exhibition have one similarity. All of them are moms who have met in the classical realism of the Vilnius Academy of Arts to develop in an extraordinary stage of motherhood.

« Morals for all moms – be brave, express yourself. Don’t ruin your or children’s dreams. They will still come back to them after a few decades. We have proven it, » said D. Gelminiene, one of the authors of the exhibition and works not only to watch, but to take something with you.

Each artist left her work in the museum, and besides them, autographs and thoughts. The latter were greedy from the walls from the walls and laid in their notebooks or smartphone photo galleries.

« I’m a creator. Not because I was allowed. Not because it is proven, but because I am a woman, Homo-Creatrix. I am the beginning and the world is growing from me, » said A. Janiukštė’s thoughts.

After launching light hair, hiding a piece of chalk in a piece of white rings, K. Markauskienė left her daughter on the wall: « Maybe I can’t pick all the stones from your knee, but I will try.