ニューヨーク近代美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク近代美術館Instagram)「Swipe left to discover something new at MoMA → Two visions of pregnancy made the same year, from a male and a female artist’s points of view. Working in Austria and Germany, respectively, in the years before World War I, artists Gustav #Klimt and #PaulaModersohnBecker reacted to the rapid transformations affecting society—industrialization and urbanization, as well as changing attitudes toward sexuality—with artworks of intense personal expression and emotional authenticity. Their unique visions of pregnancy are on view in Gallery 504: New Expression in Germany and Austria. Despite its iridescent, decorative qualities, Klimt’s “Hope, II” alludes to the dangers of childbirth with potent symbolism. The woman bows her head. Close to her stomach is a death’s head, a looming sign of the danger she faces. Here birth, death, and the sensuality of the living exist side by side, suspended in equilibrium. The harsh realities of childbirth come to light in Modersohn-Becker’s biography. She painted this emblematic self-portrait, in which the pregnant artist stares at viewers with a steady, compelling gaze, the year that she died, at age 31, weeks after giving birth to her first child. Yet Modersohn-Becker’s expression here seems hopeful, an attitude reinforced by her colorful, textured palette. #MoMACollection #newMoMA --- [Left to right: Gustav Klimt. “Hope, II.” 1907-08. Oil, gold, and platinum on canvas. 43 1/2 x 43 1/2" (110.5 x 110.5 cm); Paula Modersohn-Becker. “Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand.” 1907. Oil on canvas. 21 3/4 × 9 3/4" (55.2 × 24.8 cm)]」1月31日 6時02分