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GUSTAV KLIMT paintings are The Kiss (1907) and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
(1907), which sold for a record auction price of more than 100
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the million dollars in 2006.
most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. “The Kiss” is the final painting of Klimt’s Gold Period, during
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt is one of the most celebrated which he incorporated gold leaf into his works. This practice
Symbolist artists. Klimt co-founded the Secessionist Movement reflects the strong influence of the gold-detailed religious art
in 1897. Rejecting Vienna’s traditionally conservative art scene, of the Middle Ages as well as the sacred works created by
Klimt and other Secessionists gave Vienna’s contemporary artists of the Byzantine Empire. This luminous period lasted
artists a platform to share their work. This liberating movement about a decade, yet it has come to characterize Klimt’s style
inspired and allowed Klimt to experiment with his art and and has resulted in some of modern arts most well-known
develop a Symbolist style inspired by the Art Nouveau and Arts and valuable paintings.
and crafts movements. “The central focus is on Klimt, I chose a black and white
His Symbolist pastiches of pale nudes, allegorical gardens photograph of him from the archives, dated 1902. I decided
and erotic content served as the basis for many American on this study as he has the allure of an artist, with a profound
psychedelic poster designs in the 1960s. Early narrative paintings expression and a touch of craziness which depicts the inner
depicted heavy subjects such as anxiety, doubt, sexuality, and passion which artists draw on to paint wonderful artwork. It
death, but in later years, he turned toward landscape painting, also shows a very sensitive side, as I noted with his black
exploring light and abstract patterns of nature. His most famous and white cat, he seems to adore this big black and white cat
A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV KLIMT, 2022 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 84X40 IN. | 213X102 CM.
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