Death and Life (Italian: Morte e Vita) is an oil on canvas painting by Austrian symbolist painter, Gustav Klimt whose primary subject was the female body.

The painting was started in 1908 and completed in 1916. It [was] created in an Art Nouveau style by use of allegorical painting genre during Golden phase.

[It] is now housed at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

His Nuda Veritas (1899) defined his bid to further “shake up” the establishment.

The starkly naked red-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above her is a quotation by Friedrich Schiller in stylized lettering:

“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please only a few. To please many is bad”.

So, I have to ask – in the top painting is Death holding a giant rusty nail or a plunger? Either way, not judging (apparently even Death has issues with the facilities) and spectacular painting.

Artist Gustav Klimt, 1908-1916 of piece Death and Life.
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