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| Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze / The Evil Forces 1902 Secession Wien, Austria |
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Klimt's drafts for three ceiling paintings for the University of Vienna have been rejected for the explicit depiction of female genitalia.[1] Even his pictures published in the magazine "Ver sacrum" were qualified as indecent by the society and therefore destroyed.[2] The Beethoven Frieze was created one year later and represented among others nude women shamelessly presenting themselves. Even though the representation of the female genitalia in this painting is focused on the depiction of pubic hair only, at the turn of the century it provoked a public outcry. In the following years the avantgarde-artists began to combat the academic hairless tradition and pubic hair became a inherent part of the modern nude.[3] Some avant-garde artists aspired for a still more unconditional depiction and as a result the first realistic depictions of the vulva were created.
Biography: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt (Translation: K. Seifter)
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