The only time I have seen a Klimt in person was at MOMA New York. They had them lit with led downlights. Knowing how he used real gold I knew that all i had to do was change my viewing angle to get an insane viewing experience. So I sat down crosslegged in front of it. and OMG the whole thing lit up as the light caught all the gold. Pretty soon I had about 4 other other ppl sitting on the floor with me gazing up in awe. :D
I have seen many videos about the life of G. K on youtube, but this is the best introductory video I witnessed until now, thanks a lot for this beautiful effort.
So much of his work broke traditional art…this is what makes so relevant now..beautiful colours patterns and portraits combined to give us pieces that are very valuable
I love to watch the painting - they are so very intense and here the first painting that really showed some of the special qualities of catching a composition and the atmosphere as pure vibration of color is the very beautifull painting of Schubert playing in candle light - it’s so very beautifull and dreamlike 🎶♥️🧡💛🖤🎵
@@arti-facts-4uyes I enjoyed the total video - great presentation and it made me even more hungry to once in my life to see Klimt in the real world 🙏for sharing
14:05 … while walking through the painting exhibits of the Israel Museum a month ago I was excited to see the composition draft of “Medicine” on display!! It’s fantastic!
thank you for this retrospect on one of my favorite artists. truly gifted and bold to follow his artistic and human muses, but it seems he had no choice but to follow!
As an Artist and the Matriarch… I agree! Domesticity and art are not compatible. That said, my art stacks up, oft unfinished, my garden grows unabashedly weedy, and my family thrives!
Excellent video and very informative. To the lovers of Klimt's art, I highly recommend the book titled "The Lady in Gold" by Anne Marie O'Connor which focus on Klimt's Masterpiece "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
🙏interesting narrative of Klints life and his techniques and development as an artist and a true joy to look at his late landscape paintings of gardens, parks, lakes and intensifying compositions with his way of creating patterns and rhythms mostly as a square mosaic and yet resulting in so beautifull and special works 🩵💚🤎🖤
From what I have seen in Belvedere Vienna, Klimt, despite being very skilled craftsmen, while lacking originality, was never ashamed to copy not only the great master's works, but all works which were original and truly ingenious from lesser known artist. In today's exhibitions his works are proudly displayed next to the original works he had copied. When he attempted and failed to be original he blamed the critics and started a trend, that continues today, empowering the untalented to claim misunderstood originality (even if Klimt himself was skillful, but unoriginal decorator). Most of his works cannot be recognized as his unless you have done a research. He probably knew all this and "mentor" Schieler. With all this being said his works clearly popular with the masses and are for the masses.
Was Egon Schiele Klimt’s “muse” or vice versa? Schiele’s life was so short, dying at 29. Did Klimt adopt Schiele’s more sexually driven style because Egon was gone, or was Egon following Klimt until he unfortunately passed away?
Klimt was the elder of the two and acted as Schiele's mentor. Klimt had his own sexually driven style, and Schiele was encouraged by Klimt to use his models. Schiele eventually cut himself free of Klimt's artistic influence, but they remained friends until Klimt's death.
Your description of Klimt 's father a an 'engraver' is not exactly right as he was a gold leaf layer on art frames of the time. Gold inserts can be seen on most of Gustav's extraordinary work
A painting with a narrative. In this case the Garden-of-Eden-like harmony between the animals in the picture, which include storks, a fox, a lion, three mice and a woman.
