acase@tulane.edu / Although a significant amount of scholarship has extensively explored Klimt’s depiction of women, little attention has been dedicated to his recurring interest in pregnancy. In light of its relative obscurity in Western art overall, the impetus and meaning behind the pregnant body’s repeated presence throughout Klimt’s oeuvre is worthy of further study. My thesis examines how Gustav Klimt uses depictions of pregnancy as a vehicle to redefine the spiritual, scientific, and psychological divisions of society. In his disillusionment with the so-called progress of modernity under the aegis of masculine leadership, Klimt embraces the feared ‘feminization’ of fin-de-siècle society as a welcome reprieve from the failures of patriarchy. Despite his celebration of femininity, Klimt nonetheless relies heavily on traditional stereotypes of women. In the constantly evolving conversation between art and new paradigms of social order during the nineteenth century, Klimt proposes a feminine utopia wherein ‘Woman’ is the savior of a suffering humanity, with her womb serving as a site of redemption. By referencing divisive social issues, he encourages viewers to question their antiquated values. Klimt positions Woman not only as a spiritual savior and progenitor of the species, but also as a metaphorical site where self-definition and social harmony can be achieved. In chapter one, I discuss Klimt’s conflation of sacred and profane, and spirit and flesh as captured in Hope I and Hope II. Envisioning himself as a spiritual leader, Klimt preaches art as a new religion more suitable for the modern age. In the next chapter, I explore Klimt’s incorporation of scientific theories and imagery as a critique of humankind’s self-appointed place at the top of the animal kingdom. With allusions to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and Ernst Haeckel’s Monism, Klimt locates the woman’s womb as the sole site where primordial unity can be achieved. In the third chapter, I investigate conceptions of individual and collective identity through the lens of nineteenth-century developments in psychology and sociology. Using the pregnant body as a metaphor of ruptured binaries - between self and other, male and female, interior and exterior, conscious and unconscious - Klimt reveals that the similarities humans share overshadow the arbitrary and superficial differences. Klimt turns to the influence of women as intuitors of the biological impulse, bearers of life, and agents of change in an ossified world. Klimt’s utopianism is grounded in the female body as a source of radical change and social transformation. He posits Woman as the savior and source of a renewed hope that will birth a new evolved humanity more attuned to the tenets of femininity in its embrace of the irrational. By juxtaposing the promise of new life with the haunting figure of death, Klimt’s pregnancy paintings symbolize the death of the civilized body and the birth of a liberated self. Klimt positions women as the procreators of a new generation composed of Nietzsche’s Übermensch, or perhaps in Klimt’s universe, of Überfrau. / 1 / Nicole Lampl

The Austrian art critic Ludwig Hevesi wrote the article "Gustav Klimt und die Malmosaik" in August of 1907 after seeing two separate exhibitions with paintings by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. The first exhibition had three easel paintings and the second, three decorative ceiling paintings. Despite the obvious differences between the two types of paintings, Hevesi noted a stylistic continuity between them. He created the term, Malmosaik, applicable to both easel and decorative painting, in order to discuss this continuity in his written criticisms. This thesis examines the applicability of the Malmosaik in Klimt's Faculty Paintings, Beethoven Frieze and Stoclet Frieze, and its impact on traditional notions of medium purity in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The Malmosaik, as it developed in Klimt's work, is discussed here as an innovative, non-medium specific aesthetic unique to Vienna.

Although much of Gustav Klimt's work is well recognized, his painting Hope II (1907-1908) has received little attention in academic studies. Rejected by his peers on its initial exhibition, this work was found offensive by even his staunchest supporters. Second wave feminists have also been critical of his painting, finding in it an objectification of women. This is likely due in part to the central subject of the piece involving pregnancy. Klimt was unafraid to paint images that shocked and diverged from traditional aesthetic styles. During a time of rapid social change and development of the feminist movement, Klimt offered fin-de-siècle Vienna an image that invited conversations about female sexuality, identity, and fertility. This paper constitutes a rereading of Klimt as empathetic to the female experience by way of a close analysis of Hope II. The artist's closeness to many women indicates his awareness of their plight. His portrayal of fertility in this painting offered a new perspective of womanhood in art with a depiction of woman as autonomous and empowered. Criticism from second-wave feminists often follows Klimt's work. However, his continued representation of the female body should be read as a glorification of the body rather than objectification of it.

This essay is an analysis of Gyorgy Ligeti's Melodien for orchestra (1971), with a particular focus on symmetrical structures and imitative echoing. In this essay, I explore the many levels--melodic, harmonic, temporal, and structural--on which these mirrorings and shadowings take place. In Melodien, these symmetries and shadowings are often broken, distorted, or negated; the tension between order and disorder in Ligeti's works manifests itself in these moments. I also explore the connections between Gustav Klimt's mosaic paintings, an inspiration behind Melodien, and Ligeti's compositional practices. In the introduction, I briefly situate Melodien in terms of Ligeti's previous works. In the following two sections, I discuss structural, temporal, and melodic aspects of mirroring and shadowing. In the fourth section, I explore harmonic aspects, including the prevalence of the major third in Melodien and the presence of symmetrical and near-symmetrical interval structures. In the fifth section, I discuss the idea of implied just intonation within the 12-note equal-tempered world of Melodien--distorted shadows of harmonic spectra. In the sixth section, I discuss the connections between Melodien and Klimt's mosaic works: the surface-level brightness and glitter of both, structural and compositional correspondences between Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and Melodien, and the presence of broken symmetries in Klimt's works.

Bakalauro darbas „Moteris – Sirena“ atspindi, kaip galima remiantis Gustavo Klimto tapybos darbais sukurti kolekciją. Darbe nagrinėjama G. Klimto kūryba, aiškinamasi, kaip jo tapybos darbai atsispindi įvairiose drabuţių kolekcijose. Bakalauro darbą sudaro dvi dalys: teorinis aprašas ir moteriškų drabuţių kolekcija G. Klimto kūrybos motyvais.Aptariama, kokios įtakos menas turi aprangos dizaineriams, apţvelgiama, kaip tapybos darbai tampa įkvėpimo šaltiniu,apibūdinama mitologinių sirenų samprata bei jų atspindţiai G. Klimto kūryboje,analizuojamas fatališkos moters įvaizdis istorijoje bei šiuolaikiniame gyvenime. Pateikiamos dizainerių kolekcijos, formuojančios fatališkos moters įvaizdį,pristatomos įvairių dizainerių drabuţių kolekcijos, remiantis G. Klimto kūrybos motyvais,pagrindţiama idėja, pateikiami eskizai, projektai, technologiniai mėginiai, aprašomas drabuţių kolekcijos kūrimo procesas – konstravimas, modeliavimas, siuvimas. Taip pat pateikiamos įvykdytų drabuţių modelių fotografijos ir numatomas kolekcijos pristatymas. / This bachelor work "Women - Siren" show how can based Gustav Klimt paintings create a collection in which a woman is like a work of art. Analyzed by G. Klimt works, examines how the paintings are reflected in different clothing collections.Reviews the concept of mythological sirens and their reflections in G. Klimt works,analyzes the image of the femme fatale in the history and today life. Designers' collections are presented based on a femme fatale image.The various collections of clothing based on G. Klimt art motifs are presents.There is also analysis of peculiarities of form, texture, symbols and colors in order to interpret it in the clothes collection there is a well-founded idea. Sketches, projects and technological samples are presented. The process of creation of clothes ensemble (construction, modeling, sewing) is also described. There are photos of accomplished models and the presentation is foreseen.

The reputation given to Adolf Loos and Gustav Klimt as opposites, as well as the understanding of Loos's writings as supporting this reputation, correspond less to the works as such than to the general dichotomic mode of understanding that we inherited from the so-called platonic dichotomy of being and appearance. / Indeed, common to their respective work are the relationships in which stand the elements forever understood as antagonistic. Neither opposition nor transparency, their work bring forth an intermediary state, the state of coexistence of difference. / By questioning the relationships between elements taken as opposites, Loos and Klimt are challenging the secular dichotomy of being and appearance, and with it the whole understanding of artistic creation and of the work of art as such.

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This thesis will introduce the Viennese Modernism from the background of social and aesthetic changes at the turn of the 20th century. First will be outlined the social situation around 1900 and a position of bourgeois class in this society, because this class is where the culture of Viennese Modernism came from. From this social status as well as numerous scandals of modern art in this conservative society will be explained the organization of the cultural life of the young generation of artists. Furthermore there will also be introduced the Modernism in painting, architecture and music by their major artists. Similarly, in literature will be presented Hermann Bahr as an organizer of the literary group Young Vienna and his biggest opponent Karl Kraus, the satirist of his time. Thematically, the work of the authors of Young Vienna is divided into three areas, namely into the image of the society, which is mainly reflected in the work of Arthur Schnitzler and Peter Altenberg, aestheticism, which is also the subject of the most important works by Leopold Andrian, Richard Beer-Hofmann and the early dramas of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The last theme is Chandos-Brief, written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which is a document of the language crisis in this time.

The esteemed French author, Marcel Proust, revolutionized the way that literature fuses with visual art. Through the detail of his novella Un Amour de Swann, Proust creates a world in which the idolatry of a painting destines one man to a life void of fulfillment in love. This thesis explores the intrinsic connection of painting and literature to love through Proust’s treatment of the Botticelli fresco, Les Épreuves de Moïse, and the carefully crafted lesson that Proust teaches to integrate art into the fabric of life. Proust’s advice reaches far beyond the constraints of his own words, and through an analysis of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, Proustian guidance is brought to a universal scale. For Proust, art truly was a way of life, this thesis seeks to embody just that.