Gideon Polya
"Sydney Madonna" by Gideon Polya
"Sydney Madonna" is a huge painting (1.3 meters x 2.2 meters) that I have recently created in a humanitarian cause. It is inspired by a 2 millennium tradition of Christian icons representing the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.
The image also represents at a fundamental, universal level what is most sacred to all decent people whether theist, atheist or agnostic, namely Mother and Child. My “Sydney Madonna” shows Mother and Child superimposed (together with aspects of the flora and fauna of Australia) upon the most beautiful Man-made landscape in Australia, specifically the Sydney Opera House, the Harbor filled with yachts, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, and the North Shore. The message of the painting is that Mother, Child and Wild Nature utterly transcend the greatest works of Man.
For further details and discussion of "Sydney Madonna" see Gideon Polya, “Sydney Madonna & Aboriginal Genocide”: sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/sydney... . For details of related paintings by Gideon Polya see "Art, for Peace, Planet, Mother & Child": sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/home .
Peace is the only way but Silence kills and Silence is complicity. We are obliged to INFORM others about gross abuses of humanity and risks to humanity e.g. the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide (2 million post-invasion excess deaths 1788-2009; 9,000 Aborigines die avoidably each year), Palestinian Genocide (post-1967 excess deaths 0.3 million), Iraqi Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 2.5 million; excess death 4.4 million, 1990-2009), Afghan Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 4.5 million) and worsening Climate Genocide (that is set to kill 10 billion people this century due to unaddressed, man-made climate change) (see "Aboriginal Genocide": sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ and "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide": sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .
"Sydney Madonna" by Gideon Polya
"Sydney Madonna" is a huge painting (1.3 meters x 2.2 meters) that I have recently created in a humanitarian cause. It is inspired by a 2 millennium tradition of Christian icons representing the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.
The image also represents at a fundamental, universal level what is most sacred to all decent people whether theist, atheist or agnostic, namely Mother and Child. My “Sydney Madonna” shows Mother and Child superimposed (together with aspects of the flora and fauna of Australia) upon the most beautiful Man-made landscape in Australia, specifically the Sydney Opera House, the Harbor filled with yachts, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, and the North Shore. The message of the painting is that Mother, Child and Wild Nature utterly transcend the greatest works of Man.
For further details and discussion of "Sydney Madonna" see Gideon Polya, “Sydney Madonna & Aboriginal Genocide”: sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/sydney... . For details of related paintings by Gideon Polya see "Art, for Peace, Planet, Mother & Child": sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/home .
Peace is the only way but Silence kills and Silence is complicity. We are obliged to INFORM others about gross abuses of humanity and risks to humanity e.g. the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide (2 million post-invasion excess deaths 1788-2009; 9,000 Aborigines die avoidably each year), Palestinian Genocide (post-1967 excess deaths 0.3 million), Iraqi Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 2.5 million; excess death 4.4 million, 1990-2009), Afghan Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 4.5 million) and worsening Climate Genocide (that is set to kill 10 billion people this century due to unaddressed, man-made climate change) (see "Aboriginal Genocide": sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ and "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide": sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .