In this painting you can clearly see the three people but if you look beyond that you find another picture. The middle aged woman on the right has a light blue ribbon/curtain wrapping around her. In previous paintings Klimt uses blue as a representative for death. So its making its way up her body showing how much longer she has to live. It is nearly half way up her leg but for the child it has just passed her ankle. Klimt was a symbolist painter meaning he uses mythological symbols to explain his symbols. Around the older lady is a lot of browns, blacks and oranges these are looked at as deeper and dark colours but the middle aged woman has bright blues and yellows surrounding her. This shows that the colours have ‘faded’ because she is older.
