Hope, II

Klimt, Gustav

dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1907-1908	en_US
dc.creator	Klimt, Gustav	en_US
dc.date	1907-1908	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-11-02T18:18:58Z
dc.date.available	2007-11-02T18:18:58Z
dc.date.issued	1907-1908	en_US
dc.identifier	104893	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/22403	en_US
dc.description	The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 54 A pregnant woman bows her head and closes her eyes, as if praying for the safety of her child. Peeping out from behind her stomach is a death's head, sign of the danger she faces. At her feet, three women with bowed heads raise their hands, presumably also in prayer—although their solemnity might also imply mourning, as if they foresaw the child's fate. Why, then, the painting's title? Although Klimt himself called this work Vision, he had called an earlier, related painting of a pregnant woman Hope. By association with the earlier work, this one has become known as Hope, II. There is, however, a richness here to balance the women's gravity. Klimt was among the many artists of his time who were inspired by sources not only within Europe but far beyond it. He lived in Vienna, a crossroads of East and West, and he drew on such sources as Byzantine art, Mycenean metalwork, Persian rugs and miniatures, the mosaics of the Ravenna churches, and Japanese screens. In this painting the woman's gold-patterned robe—drawn flat, as clothes are in Russian icons, although her skin is rounded and dimensional—has an extraordinary decorative beauty. Here, birth, death, and the sensuality of the living exist side by side suspended in equilibrium.	en_US
dc.description	full view	en_US
dc.format.extent	110.49 x 110.49 cm (43.5 x 43.5 inches)	en_US
dc.format.medium	gold	en_US
dc.format.medium	oil paint	en_US
dc.format.medium	platinum	en_US
dc.format.medium	canvas	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	131001	en_US
dc.rights	(c)Davis Art Images	en_US
dc.subject	Death	en_US
dc.subject	Grief	en_US
dc.subject	Pregnant women	en_US
dc.subject	Hope	en_US
dc.subject	Breast in art	en_US
dc.subject	Prayer	en_US
dc.subject	Art, Modern --20th century	en_US
dc.subject	Painting, Austrian --20th century	en_US
dc.title	Hope, II	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Vision	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	MOMA-P2016	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 468.78	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Austrian	en_US
vra.technique	painting (image-making)	en_US
vra.worktype	Oil painting	en_US
dc.contributor.display	painter: Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918)	en_US