Home > Blossary: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
A blossary of paintings by Gustav Klimt.

Category: Arts

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Created by: Silentchapel

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Incomplete painting, it takes a symbolic significance for its biblical subject as well as Eve's facial rendering, with her reclined head and a sweet yet enigmagtic smile. The lower section, with ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

The series of Klimt's beech forests corresponds to the one with lakes, created during the same period. repeated are the high horizon, the squarish format, the close-up perspective. The rhythmic ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Burgtheater in Vienna - representing the old theatre in Vienna, during a main session. This old building was soon to be demolished and rebuilt, and the painting is valuable in that it shows the ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Representation of the mythological daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and his wife Queen Eurydice. While imprisoned by her father, King of Argos, in a tower of bronze, Danae was visited by Zeus, ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

The unusual subject and its formal rendition created critical perplexity in order for Klimt to exhibit this work, he had to give it a religious interpretation. The pregnancy theme had already been ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

The painting depicts the biblical character of Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes. The slightly lifted head has a sense of pride, whereas her visage is languid and sensual, with parted ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Also known as Black Feather Hat, the red hair and the disproportionate hat were already present in Klimt's Lady with Hat and Feather Boa. The unfinished style, unusual for the Austrian artist, ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

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Great Blossary. Very informative.

03:25, 6 August 2014
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