Which Madonna and Child painting does this still from the Gillette ad look like?

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The woman’s face reminds me of the Australian Icon, Our Lady of the Southern Cross, officially commissioned for World Youth Day in Sydney, 2008.

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It turns out that the director of the commercial is an Australian woman, based in London, named Kim Gherig. I can’t find whether she was i Australia in 2008, and how old she would have been at the time or where she would have been.

Just speculating 🙂
 
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Images of love of a mother for her child is understood universally. I think you are reading too much into it, but if it reminds you of something nice, then THAT is nice!
 
I think you’re reading too much into it. Mothers comforting their children is a pretty universal image quite apart from religious considerations.

But even if you are right that this is what they are going for, what would that even mean? Do you think it’s a veiled attack on Christianity? Or subliminal support? What would be the purpose?
 
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I think you’re reading too much into it. Mothers comforting their children is a pretty universal image quite apart from religious considerations.

But even if you are right that this is what they are going for, what would that even mean? Do you think it’s a veiled attack on Christianity? Or subliminal support? What would be the purpose?
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In the spirit of steering clear of controversy, I’ll just answer your question, with no, I don’t see it as either a veiled attack on Christianity or as subliminal support, but rather I see it using Christian imagery to sell razor blades, possibly subconsciously.

Some have pointed out that the mother’s love is a universal theme. That is a very good point, and may be all there is to this (to sell razor blades). However the image is also strongly associated with Catholicism and the Madonna and Child. It is widely displayed as such in the Catholic countries of Europe, where the film director, being an English woman, would spend much time. Whether they have veered from the universal theme to the particular is open to conjecture and couldn’t be answered without more information.

I thank @humbleseeker for finding a Catholic image which most closely resembles the still.
 
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It doesn’t really remind me of any painting with the Madonna and Child…

But there was that scene in the Bible where Jesus gave the apostles a a shave and a haircut before the last supper…
 
Hmmm, that might be a good catch.
No shameless co-opting there…
 
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