Gustav Klimt, The Wait (canvas)

Description

A female figure with an unnatural posture who turns her gaze towards the narration of the frieze, hairstyle, clothes and face of the woman immediately refer to the Egyptian world and the figurative style of that distant world. Although the woman's face is characterized by strong realism, it contrasts with the abstractionism of the body characterized by the two-dimensionality of the clothes; So that there is no difference between the foreground with the main actors and the background of the mosaic. The Waiting is wrapped in a triangular-shaped robe that makes us perceive nothing of the anatomy of the female body that it hides; The dress is composed of large triangles decorated inside, a series of geometric lines that reflect and refer to the almost glacial rigidity of the figure.