1. Art Klimt for Sale2. About Klimt3. Analysis of Gustav Klimt Painting3.1 the Kiss by Klimt 3.2 Tree of Life 3.3 The Beethoven Frieze 3.4 Klimt Judith and the Head of Holofernes 3.5 More 4. Gustav Klimt Biography5. Story about the Kiss Painting |
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About Gustav KlimtAustria Famous Artist Gustav Klimt is the most famous Austrian painter and illustrator, was borned on July 14, 1862 and died on Feb. 6, 1918. In Gustav Klimt life, he fathered at least 14 children. As his series of art deco paintings, he was called as "founder of the school of painting" that is known as the Vienna Sezession. Gustav Klimt the Kiss and Tree of Life embodies the high-keyed warmhearted, psychological, and aesthetic preoccupations that shows Vienna's dazzling intellectual world. |
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Klimt is considered as the preeminent exponent of ART NOUVEAU. Mural decorations at the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna was executed by Klimt Gustav from 1886 to 1892, artist Gustav confirmed his eclecticism and broadened range of historical references from these works. Klimt was a cofounder and the first president of a group of modernist architects and artists, named Vienna Secession, the organize held exhibition society and gave rise to the SECESSION MOVEMENT of Art Nouveau. Today we know the most famous paintings in museum quality such as Gustav Klimt Kiss, Danaë, Judith and the Head of Holofernes, The Tree Of Life, and Klimt Life. |
The primal forces of sexuality, regeneration, love, and death form the dominant themes of Klimt paintings. His art of femmes fatales personify the dark side of sexual attraction in Klimt Judith I. | |||||||
The Kiss Gustav Klimt is popular as top sold painting that
celebrates the attraction of the sexes and the promise of new life with the destroying force of death.
Three ceiling murals for the University of Vienna also express the sensualism and originality of Klimt art. The style of the Kiss by Gustav Klimt drew upon an enormous range of sources such as classical Greek, Byzantine, Egyptian, and Minoan art; Late-medieval art and the woodcuts of oil painting master Albrecht Dürer as well as photography and the symbolist art. But art Klimt achieved both individuality and extreme elegance in synthesizing these diverse sources. Paintings by Gustav Klimt have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual artwork, e.g., Landhaus am Attersee was sold for $29,128,000. In 2006, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, the 1907 Klimt's portrait art, was purchased for a reported US $135 million, surpassing Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe in $104 million, art Gustav Klimt is the highest reported price. |
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Analysis of Paintings by Gustav Klimt
-- Author: Lewis L., Toperfect Director.
Artwork The KissCreated: 1907–1908 Original size: 180 cm x 180 cm Location: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere The Kiss is an Genre oil painting on canvas in the subject of love, with oil paint and gold leaf on canvas. The adoption of bright colors and a great quantity of gold foil made it the best representative of Klimt paintings. Klimt Gustav the Kiss depicts a couple of man and woman who are embracing and kneeling in the garden. Surrounded by the golden light, they look elegant. The colorful rays of light like the peacock spreading his tail sprinkle from the heels of the woman. The man holds the woman in his arms, kissing on her lip passionately. Being intoxicated with Klimt Gustav Kiss, the woman appears shyness and her expression and gesture seem that she want to stop the man's caress. The Kiss artwork dealing with love is the master painting of Klimt. |
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It's finished during his "Golden Period" when Klimt Gustav painted a number of paintings in gilded style. Kiss Klimt was influenced by
the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of Arts and Crafts movement. Kiss painting is composed of conventional oil paint
with gold leaf that gives the artwork strikingly modern and evocative appearance. It is a symbol of Viennese Art Nouveau and is considered
most popular work of Gustav Klimt art, and a masterpiece of the early modern period. Klimt Paintings - DanaëDanaë is a princess in Greek mythology. God predicted that her son would kill her father, so the King imprisoned her in a tower. The Lord Zeus transformed into golden rain to date with Danaë, then she gave brith to Perseus. Since Renaissance, many people painted on this subject. The process of Danaë falling in love and pregnant is the key of Klimt painting. A series of symbols are used in the artwork: the red curling hair, huddled nude woman, gauze decorated with figure and yellow dots representing golden rain. Klimt Danaë is collected by a private person in Austria. This artwork is same popular with Gustav the Kiss.Klimt Judith and the Head of HolofernesThe artwork was finished in 1901.Judith is a beautiful widow -- a legend figure in the Old Testament. In the 3rd century A.D., senior general Holofernes of Assyria besieged her hometown. In order to rescue the city Judith slipped into enemy's camp. Then she seduced the senior general with her beauty and killed him. Back to the city with the Head of Holofernes in he hands, she rescued the city from a siege. Klimt Judith and the Head of Holofernes intends to emphasize her cruel feature rather than her heroic behaviour. Klimt Paintings - Adele Bloch-Bauer IPortrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is in a golden background, clothes of various golden yellow stripes covering the elegant figures make the artwork splendid and magnificent. Adele Bloch-Bauer I was sold for a record $135 million in 2006.The Tree Of LifeKlimt painted The Tree Of Life for the dining hall of an apartment in Brussels. The painter boldly used various kinds of flat decorative pattern on the fresco to produce an effect of orient colors and mysterious mood. This painting is same famous with Gustav the Kiss. Klimt Tree of Life Symbolize spiritual enlightenment and the union of heaven and earth, Gustav artist portrays a universal motif in this artwork in a unique context of curlicues and gleaming gold leaf. As a renowned Art Nouveau founder Gustav created the piece, the Tree of Life Klimt features the lavish ornamentation and gold embellishments prominent in the image. Gustave Klimt still resonates in modern art, decorations and jewelry by his series including the Kiss and Tree of Life by Klimt.Klimt Paintings - Pallas AthenaThe artwork is a fresco painted by Gustave Klimt for the stair passageway of The Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum.The Beethoven Frieze1902; Secession Building, ViennaDetail from the first wall of the frieze depicting man's search of happiness. This section shows a naked man and woman praying for the knight (modelled on Gustav Mahler) who will set out in search of happiness. Behind the man and woman is a second woman who gazes on in contemplation. Above the knight other woman give the knight a laurel crown. Water Serpents I (1904–1907)Water Serpents II (1904–1907)Water Serpents II is a horizontal composition as well as approximately abstract decorative composition. The 2 pieces Water Serpents show his trends to paint strange, freak and erotic scenes in his later years. On one hand, Gustav Klimt was influenced by his friend Freud, on the other hand, his lived in poverty due to the economic depression of Austria in the First World War. Gustav art - The Three Ages of Woman1905The whole life of a woman is contained in Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman, from the child, the youth to the old age. This irreversible trilogy of life reflects that the painter is sentimental about the destiny. The theme of The Three Ages of Woman is serious and dolorous about life, in which the predestinations of love and sex, life and death are expressed. |
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Biography of Gustav KlimtEarly Klimt Life In 1862 Gustav Klimts was born in Baumgarten in Austria-Hungary. He lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, and studied architectural painting until 1883. In 1888, artist Gustav received the Golden order of Merit for his murals painted in the Burgtheater in Vienna. In 1892 both his father and brother died, The tragedies affected Gustave Klimt's artistic vision, he would veer toward a new personal style of the Kiss Gustav Klimt and Tree of Life. Vienna secession years of biography Gustav Klimt The painter was president of the Wiener Sezession that did not set out to encourage any particular style whatever Naturalists, Realists, or Symbolists. Their symbol was Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of the arts. Three Klimt paintings were commissioned to create in 1894, but not completed until the turn of the century. The 3 pieces of Gustav Klimt art were Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence, were criticized and called "pornographic", and finally retreating SS forces destroyed Gustav Klimt painting in 1945. In the late 1890s Klimt Gustave painted many landscape artworks on the shores of Attersee. The artist was largely interested in painting figures as shown in Gustav Kiss and Tree of Life; these art Klimt constitute the only genre aside from figure-painting. These landscape paintings by Gustav Klimt are characterized as the figural pieces because of the design and patterning. Klimt biography in Golden phase Gold leaf was used in many of Klimt art, this can be traced back to Pallas Athene (1898) and Klimt Judith I (1901), although Gustav paintings in this period are the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss by Klimt. The artist traveled to Venice and Ravenna, there the beautiful mosaics inspired his gold technique and Byzantine imagery as shown in oil on canvas the Kiss by Klimt in 1907-1908. Gustav Klimt Biography: the Death In 1911 Gustav art titled Death and Life received first prize in the world exhibitions in Rome. Gustav Klimt died of influenza epidemic in Vienna on February 6, 1918. The artist was buried at the Hietzinger Cemetery in Hietzing, Vienna. Numerous Gustav Klimt painting were left unfinished. |
The Kiss by Gustav KlimtKlimt Gustav was 45 living with his mother and two unmarried sisters when he painted the Kiss artwork. He was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite; the proof is that he fathered at least three illegitimate children. The Kiss by Klimt reflects his fascination with eroticism, its overall architecture is obviously phallic. The painting is renowned because of its tender representation of the female model who is tightly embraced within the overall geometry of Kiss by Klimt. Their bodies is formed from the most detailed, colourful and best expressed abstract passages. Kiss Klimt was painted soon after his three-part Vienna Ceiling series that were criticized as both 'pornography' and evidence of 'perverted excess'. But today the painting the Kiss is one of the most popular and recognizable artwork in the world. |
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