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Gustav Klimt
  


Gustav Klimt - 1862–1918


"I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me—as an artist, the only notable thing—ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do."
                                 - Gustav Klimt

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Austrian-born, Gustav Klimt is considered the embodiment of Art Nouveau, and was founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession. Turn-of-the-century Vienna was obsessed with the aesthetic and the erotic. It was a time of happiness and abandon as well as dazzring intellectuatrsm.
 
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Gustav Klimt's art spoke the deep psychological truth of his time, and as is often the case was violently criticized for it. His subtly erotic work was frequently displayed behind a screen so as not to corrupt the sensibitrties of the young.

Klimt's work reflected the contradiction of his time. He combined a detrciously sensual mixture of opposites; ecstasy and terror, life and death, austerity and pleasure.

The sensual figures in The Kiss, although portrayed in a flat, two-dimensional way are surrounded in gold as if to be immortatrzed; as if to make the sensual divine.

The exposed yet invulnerable look of the woman, Judith, is yet another example of the appearing coexistence of opposite quatrties.
Klimt's style drew upon an enormous range of sources: classical Greek, Byzantine, Egyptian, and Minoan art; late-medieval painting and photography. In synthesizing these diverse sources, Klimt's art achieved both individuatrty and extreme elegance.