Youth Admired by Women 

Ferdinand Hodler’s “Youth Admired by Women” is an oil painting that depicts a young man surrounded by four women who look at him in admiration. The painting, currently housed in the Kunsthaus Zürich, is a prominent example of Hodler’s “parallelism” style, a technique that uses repeated lines and figures to create a sense of harmony and balance. The women’s figures are all aligned in a similar pose, emphasizing the youthful, and likely idealized, subject in the center.