Gustav Klimt
I must confess that when I found this painting, I was puzzled a little. Gustav Klimt is known of presenting beautiful women in such an environment (check our archive to find them!) but here we see ... a baby! Maybe this is one of Klimt’s own children because he had approximately 14 with various ladies/models/muses.
It is also one of his few later portraits in which the subject is not standing up. Painting a recumbent baby allowed Klimt to experiment with a totally new composition, placing one geometrical shape inside another. Within the square format is a large triangle, with the baby's head at its apex.
The background on either side of it forms two further triangles. The baby's cover is a mass of pattern with flowers, spirals, zigzags and rainbow-like arches of contrasting hues. He has also placed contrasting colors next to each other: orange with blue, red with green, and yellow with purple. It looks like the baby is covered with blankets. : )
Have a great Saturday!
P.S. Here are the cutest babies in art. <3