giastin 2

This painting, Maternità... 

is one of Giastin's last paintings... 

prepared for an exhibition she never managed to set up.

Two distinct trees, representing parent and child... 

have their trunks united in one point at the base. 

Their union will not last long, as they are destined for a complete separation. 

Giastin wants to communicate that mother and father must let their child go... 

because this is what true motherhood and fatherhood consists of. 

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Even if the title refers to motherhood... 

the painting does not only represent the mother figure. 

Because God is mother ánd father, and parenting must be inspired by that of God towards man. 

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The smaller trunk in the shade takes light from the large tree illuminated by the sky, and the position of the two foliage suggests a great tenderness of looks. 

The trunks are very robust, as always in Giastin's paintings, because they refer to the strength and solidity of the love that unites parents and children, inspired by the love that unites God to man. 

The sky at dawn has a streaked [gestreept] appearance, due to the diluted [verdunde] color that gives the image a rarefied [ijle] and unreal atmosphere.

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For the first time Giastin introduces the gold color... 

in the sky and in the grass... 

to symbolize the spiritual wealth that parents give to their children to go into the world... 

and for this, she affixed her signature on the earth, to testify how many precious things...

she has received from her mother and father.

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