Mother and child
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Notes : The race of these sitters is ambiguous. Pinker claimed that racial considerations did not inform his art: "There was no political statement in using a black model in the mid-1960s.I never thought of that, I thought of the painting at the time as carrying no meaning at all, being simply a delight to the eye and senses." However, segregation was at its zenith in the 1960s and race would have inevitably permeated every aspect of cultural life. The very ambiguity of the mother and child in this work reflect the politicization of race under the apartheid regime. Bibliography M. Stevenson, Stanley Pinker, (Cape Town, 2004) p.30.
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