About ‘The Virgin, Gustav Klimt’
The Virgin, Gustav Klimt
The Virgin occupies a special place in Klimt’s oeuvre. It has a key Secession theme as its motif – the relationship between beauty and ephemerality, youth and mortality, the celebration of young life and the phenomenon of a woman’s existence. Klimt painted it in his later creative period, when the theme of the “femme fatale” gave way to the dream-like sensuality of a young girl. His virtuoso drawing was combined with stylized planary abbreviation and rapidly applied intense colours.
The Virgin is imbued with one of the finest expressions of Klimt’s eroticism. The girl sleeps peacefully under a blanket ornamented with flowers and spirals. To Klimt, someone asleep is not responsible for their desires. He therefore depicted an innocent virgin held captive by her sweet and luscious dreams.
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