Gustav Klimt, The Wait (fresco)

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 world Far away. Although the woman's face is characterized by strong realism, it contrasts with the abstractionism of the body characterized by by the two-dimensionality of the clothes; So that there is no difference between the close-up with the main actors and the background of the mosaic. The Wait is wrapped in a triangular-shaped robe that it makes you feel 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 rigidity almost glacial of the figure.