비엔나 1900 모더니즘

“ the painting has an additional, historical meaning: it is one of Klimt's first paintings to depart from a traditional three-dimensional space and move into a modern, flattened space that the artist decorated luminously. (...) He(...) turned the artist's view inward - away from the three-dimensional outside world and toward the multidimensional inner self and the unconscious mind. (...) Klimt read Darwin and became fascinated with the structure of the cell - (...) Thus, the small iconographic images on Adele's dress are not simply decorative, (...) Instead, they are symbold of male and female cells: rectangular sperm and ovoid eggs. These biologically inspired fertility symbols are designed to match the sitter's seductive face to her full-blown reproductive capabilities. ”

“ Moreover, by systematically developing the clinical- pathological correlation, he was applying to medicine the insight of the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, a founder of atomic theory: "The phenomena are a visible expression of that which is hidden." Rokitansky argued that to discover the truth, we must look below the surface appearance of things. ”

“ Klimt's use of biological symbols to convey the truth beneath the surface was paralleled in the work of Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. ”