A few years ago when I was travelling around Europe, one of my roomies, Kitty brought my attention to
Klimt while we were in Vienna. Needless to say, we spent a good half a day at Österreichische Galerie Belvedere looking at his work, along with other Symbolist greats like
Egon Schiele and
Edvard Munch. Most notably, Klimt's finest painting,
The Kiss (Der Kuss). Apart from the Byzantine-esque gold mosaic technique that he frequently used, his work evoked a certain degree of eroticism, which came from his fascination with female and their bodies. I have no problem with eroticism in art, in fact, I think he has captured it in a symbolic but elegant way through his distinctive painting method.
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| The Kiss (1907 - 08) |
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| The Three Ages of Woman (1905) |
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| Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) |
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| Hope II in detail (1907 - 08) |
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| Water Serpents II (1904 - 07) |
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| Water Serpents I (1904 - 07) |
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| Death and Life (1916) |
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| Hygeia (1907) |
All images sourced from artchive.com. More of Klimt's work can be found
here
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