Hope II Degas The Portrait of Helene is

The Portrait of Helene is one of the few pieces of art by Gustav Klimt which was done in an absolutely pure academic style

Mycenaean and Greek art

But Kandinsky also begins to work with pastel tones

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Nicknamed the "prince of French operetta"

Hope II Degas The Portrait of Helene isIn a decorative vocabulary that has become his signature, Klimt here represents a pregnant woman, in profile: a relatively rare subject in Western iconography. An embodiment of carnal love, it is also an allegory of fertility. This is one of Klimt's favorite subjects: the cycle of life, endlessly reborn. As usual, the artist does not hesitate to eroticize the female figure, represented here as an expression of the fullness of physical happiness.