

*Woman Seated With Thighs Apart*
Gustav Klimt
1916
Anyone familiar with Klimt will know that this piece is not like most of his paintings. This painting is soft and delicate and simple⦠yet, provocative. In 1916, a time where women were expected to have no sexual inclinations, this painting must have been an obscenity.
There are many who would still consider it an obscenity today.