グスタフ・クリムト（Gustav Klimt）作『Hope, II』
美術館のキャプション
Although images of women and children are frequent in the history of art, depictions of pregnancy are rare. In Hope, II a woman with a skull nestled into her gown lowers her head toward her swelling belly. Below, three women also bow their heads in prayer or in mourning, Ornate decoration nearly overwhelms the painting's surface. Klimt was committed to craftwork, and he was among the many artists of his time who combined archaic traditions ― here Byzantine gold-leaf painting ― with a modern psychological subject. Klimt lived and worked in turn-of-the-century Vienna, home to Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; the artist's preoccupation with formative drives like sex and death paralleled Freud's explorations of the psyche.
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