A night terror, sleep terror or pavor nocturnus is a parasomnia disorder, causing feelings of terror or dread, and typically occurring in the first few hours of sleep during stage 3 or 4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Night terrors tend to happen during periods of arousal from delta sleep, ...
Bruxism is the excessive grinding of the teeth and/or excessive clenching of the jaw while the person is sleeping. It is an oral parafunctional activity; it is unrelated to normal function such as eating or talking. Bruxism is a common problem: reports of prevalence range from 8–31% in the ...
A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental, social and emotional functioning. Polysomnography is a test commonly ordered for some sleep disorders. Disruptions ...
Allegoric representation of Music, which Klimt painted several times in various renderings. Besides the lyre, symbol of music, this particular canvas emphasises the sphinx, the Silenus mask on the extreme left, the lion's teeth at the centre and finally the woman's meditative face.
The series of Klimt's beech forests corresponds to the one with lakes, created during the same period. repeated are the high horizon, the squarish format, the close-up perspective. The rhythmic disposition of trees, rather than creating optical confusion so that the viewer is immersed in the ...
Enhanced by the golden frame created by Klimt's brother, Georg, the goddess Athena is portrayed in front of a frieze. The red hair comes out of the helmet so as to underscore the goddess' femininity, notwithstanding her armour. Following the example of the Munich Secession, Athena is chosen ...
A realistic portrait of pianist and piano teacher Joseph Pembauer. The face's photographic realism generates a subtle tension with the symbolism of the stylised elements.
For its evanescent rarefaction the love scene reveals its symbolist mould. The work is part of Klimt's series of Allegories and Emblems, whose intent was to translate life's most significant moments, and its psychological nuances, into forms of metaphorical intensity.
