Fish Blood 
 
  In 1898 Klimt published in the Ver Sacrum a drawing entitled Fish Blood.  Here Klimt, for the first time, reveals sensual fusion of bodies carried toward the marine depths.  The metaphor of water, for Klimt, was important because of its fluid lines and serpentine convolutions where bodies would seem to float in space.  In this single drawing, female eroticism was liberated from moral constraints and social convention.