Generally Klimt’s work is more busy and stylized, but here he keeps it light for a portrait of 9 year old Mada Primavesi. The picture is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC, room 829. It hangs just at the entrance to the thin room devoted to 4 huge paintings. Klimt’s is at least 7 feet tall and the colors shine out of the canvas due to the white of the museum wall that blends almost exactly with some shades of the girl’s dress.
The work probably done to hang in the massive house of Otto Primavesi, her father and successful capitalist. Her defiant pose, legs braced against anything and a fist on her side, could have been on the cover of Girls to the Front. Mada Primavesi was painted in 1912. There is no background, just colors that we can take to be a purple wall and a white and green floor, or a white river that Primavesi stands astride; either way the focus is clearly on the girl in a statement of power. The portrait is of the daughter of a wealthy banker and industrialist, so her confidence probably comes from her assurance that she won’t ever have to deal with any problems, but given a push in the right direction she could have grown up to wage war against the patriarchy. She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.
Reject all American is Bikini Kill’s second LP and Statement of Vindication is the first track. The subject of the painting, the colors used, the pose and the size of the piece immediately called Kathleen Hannah to mind. This girl gets what she wants, and she knows that she is not allowed it and it won’t come without a fight. Reject All American was less abrasive and rawly punk as Pussy Whipped, and wasn’t as refined as Le Tigre. Primavesi is certainly not punk, but she isn’t entirely polished pop either. She needs the youthful energy and simple songwriting, especially multiple slightly off key vocals, that comes with punk, but needs the edges filled down a bit – she is refined. So the 2nd album by Bikini Kill makes sense: still young enough to start a bar fight, not old enough to sit down and write an album for a year.
It would be remiss not to include I Busted In Your Chevy Window as an option, as it works equally well, but for different reasons.
Although the argument could be made for Le Tigre’s track Deceptacon which is defiant, bright and has a Devoesque rejection of authority to it.
John Hutt 
Hey John! Klimt is one kick-ass artist. I went to the Met today to see the new sculpture exhibit! Carpeaux at the Met : Sculptural music in marble. I wrote a review on my blog : http://wp.me/p10nUp-5R
Can you use the correct words: “She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.”
Can you use the correct words: “She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.”
Can you use the correct words: “She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.”
Can you use the correct words: “She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.”
Will you change the words so it actually quotes what I wrote?
Can you use the correct words: “She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.”
Can you use the correct words: “She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.”
Can you use the correct words: “She looks like she wouldn’t take any shit from anyone, that could be seen as rich entitlement, but the picture is far more enjoyable if her pose of control is thought of as a conscious push against the society that was oppressing her both as a woman and a child.”