Gustav Klimt
Danae
Title:Danae
Artist:Gustav Klimt (Austrian symbolist painter, 1862-1918)
Art Info.:(1907; Private collection, Graz) Danae, seemingly underwater, thighs drawn up. Gold and silver seminal flow rising between her legs. Very erotic. The legend concerns her mating with Zeus in the form of a gold shower, to conceive Perseus, which is depicted here. The eroticism is highly intentional: the red hair, etc. The small black rectangle is Klimt's reduction of maleness to an abstract symbol.
