Today is celebrated all over the world “Mother’s Day” as a small tribute and respect, to the eternal universal symbol of selfless love and devotion. Not only poetry and music, but also the painter and the chisel offered masterpieces of art, to glorify it.

Georgios Iakovides, “Motherly Love”

A mother is not only the one who gives birth, but also the one who with her big heart embraces human pain with maternal affection. A source of inexhaustible inspiration, without her sweet and heroic form our world would certainly be very poor.

Yannis Moralis, “Pregnant Woman”

This small tribute depicts the Greek mother in Neo-Hellenic Art and at the same time highlights motherhood, not only as a natural event, but also as a concept that guarantees the continuation of life and creates unbreakable bonds between the next generation and the previous one. Greek artists present the aspects of motherhood through the visual trends of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Polykleitos Regos, “Mother and Child”

In these centuries motherhood has a significant presence in painting, engraving and sculpture. Holding a central position in Greek society, the mother has developed a variety of skills and activities and has emerged as a model of devotion and self-sacrifice. The related works express at the same time the importance and the prestige that the maternal figure has in the consciousness of the Modern Greeks.

Nikolaos Gyzis, “Mother’s Kiss”

A subject with social, ideological and psychological components, motherhood in its depictions throughout time reflects and reveals idiosyncrasies, psyches, female identity, individual as well as culturally determined behaviors and the consciousness of the maternal relationship.

Nikiforos Lytras, “Mother and Child”

Giannoulis Halepas, “Medea”

The mother has been worshiped as a symbol of fertility since the earliest human societies and has been a favorite subject of all forms of art, from antiquity to the present day. Above all, the mother-infant pattern has stood out as the most durable and emotionally charged.

Mother - babysitter

Yannis Pappas, “Study for a statue of the mother”

Christos Kapralos, “My mother”

Kostas Grammatopoulos, “Heroes”
  • Published by the Hellenic Parliament Foundation, entitled “Dedication to the Greek Mother: Motherhood in Modern Greek Art”