Grazie Klimt

Thanks Perugia for Klimt The Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria has given us a splendid exhibition dedicated to Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece, The Three Ages (1905), on loan from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome.
 Between virtual, illustrative material and paintings, we are introduced to the theme of the three ages, thanks to the author’s symbolic ability to restore the physiognomies of bodies in the journey that is life.
 Influenced by a period that sees the explosion of Freud’s psychoanalysis, in The Three Ages by Klimt the female destiny is illustrated in the crudest guise, without religious influence, but photographing in an obvious and dry way the destiny of the changing body and the attitude towards life that fades with the body.
 So goodbye to the classical vision of the female body to embrace a modern vision of the beginning of the last century. The older woman, wrapped in dark shades typical of the evening of life, hidden in the emotions of her face but proud and protective in her erect body, firmly planted on the ground after a life of disillusionment, slightly bent by human toil. In the old woman there seems to be no trace of hope or participation in the joy of life typical of the other two female figures. The young mother, protective towards a daughter still dreaming and hopeful in the act of sleeping, abandoned to the warmth of her daughter's little body, sweet present as well as the future that awaits her. Both embraced by a cloak of Botticellian flowers alternating with the gold so loved by Klimt, a source of precious light discovered by him in the Byzantine mosaics he loved and studied so much.