Gustav Klimt Empowering Women

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Title: Dánae

Technique: Oil / canvas

Measures: 77cm x 83 cm

Year: 1907

Currently located: Galerie Würthle in Vienna.


Gustav Klimt was a proponent of femininity without taboos, a provocateur of the time, lover and visionary, he could look silent but he always left his mark wherever he went. He was characterized by gold and golden touches in his works, transferring such power to his muses and spectators. He conquered me in both cases. Despite the boldness and controversy of his art for the time, Gustav Klimt managed to make art speak for him. For his golden age, Freud's sexual theories were in full fury. What served as a great impulse for the recognition of his work, as Klimt wanted, to show the erotic superiority of women with sensual symbolism, the expressions of impudence, the golds, the geometric motifs of the costumes and the headdresses of their characters .

The symbolist artist and one of the most notable of the modernist movement of the Viennese secession was born in: Austria, Baumgarten, July 14, 1862 and died on February 6, 1918 in Alsergrund. The art came as a family inheritance, his father, Ernst Klimt was a gold engraver and Anna Klimt a frustrated singer. Gustav, at the age of fourteen, obtains a scholarship to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule, the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna, hence his training as an interior painter and decorator. Despite her quiet personality, she was always the center of attention because of the frequent feminine silhouettes captured in her art, she relied on them throughout her career, pronouncing the erotic energy. However, he also made landscapes with games between brush strokes to give a naive and little invasive light to the work, it was like his antagonism of his proposal. Many of these you can see in: The Immersive exhibition of Gustav Klimt in the Atelier des Lumières. From portraits and landscapes, they are the protagonists of this exhibition. You will also find works by other Viennese artists Egon Schiele, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser, both influenced by the work of Gustav Klimt. A room projecting 100 years of Viennese painting seductively enveloping with the essence of Klimt, together with other authors revolutionized the Viennese painting of the late nineteenth century.


Today I bring you the work Danae, along with my version, remembering that this dynamic comes from the choice of a particular artist or piece, either by you or my choice, in order to know it in depth, recreate it and keep us inspired. Klimt came at the suggestion of a plastic artist from my city: Alberth Rivero, who is also known for his female drawings. While investigating and revising Klimt's gallery, Danae immediately took my attention, her details, the gesture, the colors.

In Greek mythology, Dánae was imprisoned by her father in a bronze tower because the oracle told him that his grandson would kill him. But, this did not stop Zeus who was in love with the girl, he entered in the form of a golden shower at the prison of Danae, slipped between his legs, begotten Perseus, murderer of Medusa. Around the year 1900, she was the favorite emblem of many other artists to represent divine love and transcendence. I am sure that the present would be a frontal woman and capable of achieving each objective. She would have worked with kindness and intelligence to his father and Zeus, turning things in her favor.

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Personally, this piece stands out for: the spiral composition given due to the fetal position shown, the curved lines and the color palette used. Here, Gustav Klimt gives us a different approach to his work but remains true to his style. However, the most seductive of this painting is the simplification of the story of Dánae through the brushstrokes and the artist's conception. It is the perfect example to recognize Klimt as the artist of Symbolism, the current of referring or allude to a story or other theme with your own elements. In my performance, I gave to Dánae authority on her own body, self confidence, in other words I recreate a modern and an empowered woman, just like Klimt used to see us and made me feel.I am wearing a wine dress , designed and made by.

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Thanks for reading me, I appreciate your comments and suggestions.

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