Gustav Klimt

 GUSTAV KLIMT'S ART

Gustav Klimt (born July 14, 1862, Vienna, Austria/ died February 6, 1918, Vienna)was an Austrian symbolist painter, a founder of  shool of painting - Vienna Secession. 

Symbolism is a literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.

His early work had a classical style that was typical of late 19th-century academic painting, as can be seen in his murals for the Vienna Burgtheater (1888)

In 1897 Klimt’s mature style emerged, and he founded the Vienna Secession- a group of painters who revolted against academic art in favour of a highly decorative style.

His later murals are characterized by precisely linear drawing and the bold and arbitrary use of flat, decorative patterns of colour and gold leaf.

Klimt’s most successful works include "The Kiss: and a series of portraits of fashionable Viennese matrons, such as "Adele Bloch-Bauer I". In these works he treats the human figure without shadow and heightens the lush sensuality of skin by surrounding it with areas of flat, highly ornamental, brilliantly composed areas of decoration.

I think Klimt's paintings are unique and breathtaking, when I look at his paintings I feel emotions connected with them. I love the way he express his visions and puts it on canvas. 

"The Kiss"

"Adele Bloch-Bauer I"