Expectation (Dancer)
Gustav Klimt (1911)
Expectation (Dancer) crystallizes a <strong>charged pause</strong>: a profile figure, rigid as an <strong>Egyptian relief</strong>, advances through a field of spiraling <strong>Tree of Life</strong> coils while a mosaic robe of triangles and watchful <strong>eyes</strong> armors her body. Klimt fuses <strong>ornament and symbol</strong> so that anticipation itself becomes pattern and gold-lit ritual <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[4]</sup>.
