Gustav Klimt

Born in 1862, Gustav Klimt is an Austrian artist who is best known for his ornate paintings and involvement in the Art Nouveau movement. He often used mixed media in his work, incorporating paint, gold leafing, beads and jewels. According to restorers, he did not use varnish on his painting. This helped Klimt avoid a shiny finish over the canvas and made the paint quite ‘dry’. His most popular work could be described as a coming together of realistic and natural forms and intricate decoration. The

Gustav Klimt was one of the most decorative and erotic painters in the 19th century with having worked iconic paintings such as The Kiss and the Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer. He was against the traditional culture of art which was being anti-decorative and erotic. Klimt was born in 1862 in Vienna Austria. “His father Ernest was a immigrant from Bohemia to Austria and was coping to engrave gold while his mother Anna was talented in the field of music but was never to put a vision to her dreams to

During his lifetime, Gustav Klimt rose to fame due to the scandal his paintings causes. With his art, he shocked his way to success, with his erotic depictions in stark moral contrast with turn-of-the century Austrian society. As said in Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making, “Klimt’s reputation grew as much upon scandal as it did upon the quality of work itself.” But what exactly was the scandal? Nude paintings were hardly new to the art world. It wasn’t subject that was causing a stir, but rather

are associated with sadness, while warm tones with happiness. Another example being that of the two emotions love and loneliness which are openly displayed in two pieces we will be analysing. The first being a Austrian piece ‘The Kiss’ made by Gustav Klimt in 1908. A well known piece highly associated with love, and quite the opposite to Russel Drysdale’s ‘The Drover’s Wife’. Made in 1945, the Australia artwork shows loneliness. These two artworks deliver completely different meanings to the viewers

Klimt style of art developed when he worked with family portraits in the central hall of the Peles Castle and panels flanking the balcony. What is remarkable at Peles is that historicist and Art Nouveau elements exist side by side. Klimt’s work at Peles, in particular, needs to be understood against the background of this eclecticism. (Curta, 2005) and several recent accounts of Klimt’s life and work have briefly referred to his Peles paintings. Gustav Klimt represent just such an active engagement

portraiture makes a diverging change. Amongst the many 20th century painters Gustav Klimt was known for his decorative style and depicting bodies of erotic art. Klimt was also a member of the Vienna Secession in which a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists gathered together with a mission of bringing modern European art to Austria. The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt concentrate on a single full-length figure. The sitter of this portrait

attended “Vienna’s Akademie der bildenden Kunste (Academy of Fine Arts) which Gustav Klimt has also attended (Wolf). At age 16, Schiele was the youngest student who to be enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. (Chu) While he attended school here for the short amount of time, he artistic ability and style was pushed. Egon Schiele was inspired by the artists around him, especially Gustav Klimt. “Schiele sought out Klimt (wolf). These two artists bonded very quickly and it’s because of this bond

Vienna was a city in turmoil at the end of the nineteenth century. Society was changing; women were beginning to gain power; art was changing. Gustav Klimt and his Vienna Secession played a great role in this modernization of Vienna. Klimt began as an academic painter; however, after both his father and brother died, his style began to change. He helped found the Vienna Secession, and he began to draw and paint nude models. He never married, but he had multiple affairs with his models. During the

Gustav Klimt created his oil on canvas painting The Kiss between 1907 and 1908 using oil with layers of gold leaf. This piece also uses mosaic techniques as well as fresco. Just as the title suggests, the painting is a depiction of a couple embraced in a kiss. The man is kissing and embracing the woman, the woman in return is accepting the kiss and leaning up to him (Cruz 34). The painting is exhibited at the Osterrelchische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, Austria. The Kiss is a large piece measuring

The painting was made by Gustav Klimt a now famous artist, he was born in the Austrian Empire. I believe that Klimts “the Kiss” is a masterpiece that was under appreciated at his time. Today his artwork the kiss is a widely popular piece of art made over one hundred and nearly 10 years ago. Klimt was not a popular artist at the time and was widely viewed as a sinful artist because of a painting he did earlier on. His painting “The Kiss” shows a man kissing a woman on the head and is one of his most