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Béla Uitz produced monumental drawings in the expressive style of the Hungarian avant-garde movement, Activism. Mother and Child, a piece of a series drawn by him in 1918, depicts his wife and threeyear-old son. The forms are defined with strong contours; the three-dimensional effect was achieved by charcoal shading.
By contrast to his early charcoal drawings emphasizing a personal fate, in this work Uitz depicted the universal feeling associated with belonging to one another, as well as the protective and nurturing love of a mother. Uitz transformed the mother into an eternal figure, at the same time making a statement about the actual human problems of the First World War. This mother-type is an emotional and determined, strong and receptive woman, the woman of a new age, the impersonation of the artist's ideal human being.
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