The eyes stand out by their exaggerated and unnaturally large shape as well as their blackened pupils. ... The gestures, poses, circular geometric shapes, and attributes of the men and women portrayed, reveal the symbolic and realistic properties that embodied Sumerian society. ...
The figure of the mother and child are engulfed by the large eye-like shape. ... The larger head presumably the mothers is joined as one two a smaller sphere of the child's, this itself appears alike to a natural bulb or growth in my opinion, they are two clear shapes within one form united as one. ... The lower body is even more abstracted of the female figure however the sinuous shapes may suggest dress/cloth texture. ... Picasso also could have influenced through his thick geometric lines which he was using on his work at this time which he took from tribal wood carvings from Africa. ....
