"Beethoven's Ribbon" painting/Jewish question

Jana 2022-09-04 21:38:11

Looking at it, the plot of this drama is not bad, but the case in the first episode can't be exciting and exciting, and the remaining two episodes are better than one episode. The male protagonist's appearance is online, and every frame is so handsome. It was originally aimed at Freud, but the content of psychoanalysis is not much. The picture below is amazing! The following comment is an unknown paper I found on the Internet, and there seem to be not many comments about this painting. Let's take a look.


[Abstract] " Beethoven Ribbon " occupies an important position in Klimt's personal creative career, and is also a symbol of Vienna's culture and art at the end of the century. [Key words] Klimt's artistic language and spiritual concept 1. Description of "Beethoven's Ribbon" " Beethoven 's Ribbon " is a mural created by Klimt for the 14th Secession Exhibition in 1902. The theme of this Secession exhibition is a tribute to Beethoven, with a total of twenty-three artists. Among them, the more important ones are the Beethoven sculpture by Max Klinger in the center of the exhibition hall and the decorative frescoes by Klimt of Beethoven spread out along the three walls of the exhibition hall. The naturalistic style of Beethoven's full body sculpture is located in the center of the main exhibition hall, and the front is like the entrance. Klimt's mural is divided into three parts according to the wall: the front wall behind the sculpture, the theme is "hostile forces", the size is 2.2 × 6.36m; the theme of the left wall is "to happiness" Desire”, with a size of 2.2×13.78m; the theme on the right wall is “Satisfaction in Poetry and Love”, with a size of 2.2×13.78m. The theme of the exhibition reflects the Secession's idea of ​​influencing life with art in the spirit of Beethoven. The exhibition of Klimt's " Beethoven Ribbon " once again caused widespread controversy. The Beethoven Ribbonis a large-scale allegorical work. In the process of Klimt's self-reconstruction, this work is an artist in a spiritual crisis. After experiencing the search for the meaning of life at the philosophical level, the rebellion of the separatists, and the exploration of psychological instincts, this work is presented in the painting. The process of self-reconstruction and expressing the spiritual concept of self-salvation and the meaning of life in art and love. This work not only occupies an important position in Klimt's personal creative career, but also a symbol of Viennese culture and art at the end of the century. 2. Beethoven's theme and meaning The Secession exhibition takes Beethoven as the theme to express its own artistic concept, which has multiple meanings. German composer Beethoven is a representative of the Vienna Classical School and a pioneer of Western Romantic music. His outstanding musical talent, rebellious personal temperament, firm will and lofty sense of social responsibility constitute his special qualities as a musician. The creations of his life all reflect the yearning for freedom and equality and the unyielding resistance to fate. In his symphony, taking the destiny of the era and the individual as the theme, he combined profound philosophy with touching artistic images to express the spiritual journey of the rising bourgeoisie from struggle to victory, from darkness to light, and from suffering to happiness. . In the way of paying tribute to Beethoven and Beethoven's heroic spirit, the Secession artists expressed their artistic concept of rebelling against tradition, pursuing freedom and saving mankind with art. In his creation, Klimt directly referred to the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the chorus part with the lyrics of the poet Schiller's "Ode to Joy". Beethoven used music to describe the heroes of mankind, who went through arduous struggles, experienced all kinds of tribulations, and finally conquered everything, so that human beings were liberated and free, and reached the ideal kingdom. The " Beethoven Ribbon ""Analyze the theme of Beethoven's musical description of the heroes of mankind in the Ninth Symphony, the theme of victory in the confrontation with the confusion and degeneration of modern civilization and the bondage from the upper classes, which is also the hero of Prometheus in ancient Greek mythology. The spiritual content of the character archetype. Klimt reconstructed this theme using a decorative pictorial language. The wall on the left is the beginning of the mural. The theme is "The Desire for Happiness". The lime background is completely exposed in a large area, which provides an abstract space for the decorative characters, and obtains an infinity due to abstraction. A group of white-clothed angels drifted by slowly like sleepwalking, and the undulating wavy lines in the horizontal direction of the clothing and body further weakened the sense of the characters. The angel's stylized face with closed eyes appears to be immersed in a dream waiting to be awakened. Three profile figures drawn by lines, pale, thin, naked bodies without any decoration, without the slightest sexy. They speak for people in distress and see off heroes seeking liberation and salvation. This young hero, the savior of mankind, holds a sword and is armed with golden armor, with only a head and face with a resolute expression. He turned his body to the right, as if he was about to embark on an arduous journey full of struggles for the emancipation and salvation of mankind. Above him are the heads of two women. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, on the left, and Aphrodite, on the right, form one body with the young male hero, seemingly helping him to overcome the difficulties he will encounter in the process of saving mankind. The three figures are closely grouped together with no gaps between them. They are more tightly enclosed by columns consisting of women's robes and golden fish-scale decorations behind their heads. This column can be read as Philos, which undoubtedly reinforces the masculine power of the Savior. The theme of the middle wall mural is "hostile forces". The background is completely covered in dark, fish-scale and snake-skin-like decorative patterns. There is also an ape-like monster at the bottom of the picture, which is the most brutal Trevoris in ancient mythology. The female figures in sharp contrast to the dark backs, from left to right: Plague, Madness and Death, they are the daughters of Tripharis, the three Gorgons; and lust, distress and greed, sad. The skeleton-like female figure at the top of the screen represents violence. These are the hostile forces of mankind. Klimt expressed his understanding of abstract concepts such as disease, madness, death, greed, lust, atrocity, distress and sadness through various female images and the prototype of myth and fable. These female figures, who represent hostile forces, are ugly, repulsive, and aggressive, yet morbidly sexy, with a terrifying quality. This is the hostile force that the heroes of mankind must face and fight against on the road to liberation. The theme on the right wall is "Satisfaction in Poets and Love". The background has returned to the bright tones of the left wall. The angels flying above the picture symbolize the prayers and yearnings of human beings, passing through the entire picture and suspending in a free space. They stretched their arms, their dresses stretched. And their closed eyes seemed to imply that they were looking for songs to float across heaven in a dream. The muse of symbolic art is presented in profile. She is the leader of the artist's spirit. On the side she was facing was the heavenly choir singing "Ode to Joy." Their neat arrangement and similar shapes on the golden background make them materialize as decorative symbols, intertwined with other abstract decorative symbols to form a beautiful but seemingly monotonous picture of heaven. exist"In Beethoven's Ribbon , Klimt expounds the heroic theme of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from the perspective of psychological instinct through decorative and symbolic painting language: the hero of mankind, shouldering the mission of liberating mankind, in the protection of wisdom and love Under the guidance of poetry and art, he will fight against hostile forces and enter the paradise of happiness and love. At the same time, the liberation and salvation of human beings is also the self-salvation of heroes. Klimt's questioning about the meaning of life in the midst of a spiritual crisis seems to have an answer. But Klimt's interpretation of self and human liberation, through ornament and symbolism, gives the heroic theme a personal, psychological misreading. " Beethoven Ribbon " establishes the spiritual concept of self-salvation in art and love and the artistic language of symbolic decoration, thereby completing spiritual and artistic self-reconstruction. During this process, Klimt determined the worldview and found a suitable artistic language, and his inner psychological sense of self-crisis was also sublimated and eased in the creation. He became both a controversial public figure and widely regarded as the most prominent artist of his time. Although it was criticized by traditional rationalists of the ruling class and public opinion, it was also recognized and accepted by liberal groups representing advanced culture and with strong economic strength.


In addition, the Jewish issue was brought together in the second episode, which made the whole show seem very historical in terms of political issues. This was 1906, before the First World War broke out. However, there has been an undercurrent among the people on ethnic issues.

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