Gustav Klimt – Pallas Athene (1898)

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Gustav Klimt – Pallas Athene (1898)

“In 1898, Klimt produced the oil painting of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and art who was invoked as a key figure and tutelary goddess by the new Viennese artists’ association, just as she had been earlier by the Munich Secession, founded in 1892.

The protective goddess confronts the viewer with an aggressive pose, thereby holding him at a distance. Her metal breastplate in the form of a Medusa’s head grins at us, at the same time showing us its tongue—an undisguised polemic against the critics of the Secession.

In her right hand, she holds a small female figure—not Nike, the winged goddess of victory, as in traditional depictions of Pallas Athena, but instead a nude figure which holds a mirror up to the viewer, and which may be interpreted as embodying Nuda Veritas, or “Naked Truth”.

Recognizable in the background is the struggle between Hercules (personification of a new art) and the sea monster Triton (emblem of stiffness and conservatism), a scene which Klimt adopted directly from two early Greek bowls decorated in black-figure style by the painter Tleson.

Klimt’s Pallas Athena, then, may be interpreted as allegorical and programmatic image for the Secession, one that anticipates stylistically the hotly contested Symbolist ceiling paintings he would later execute for the assembly hall of the university.”

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