Tag: art

paintingses:

Portraits of women by Gustav Klimt after 1900 almost resemble mosaics. The term AESTHETIC DECORATION is used mostly to describe this. It’s use means that there is no reference to the sitter’s location, family, interests, etc, as mainly their hands, face and decolletage are the only things peeking out of the geometrical patterns that surround them.

It is possible to read the portraits as the sitters being marooned from the world and many scholars have noted that the overt use of aesthetic decoration symbolizes the isolation felt by Klimt, and how he had withdrawn into himself and his art shortly after he renounced the University of Vienna commission in 1904. 

overdose-art:

Vincent van Gogh + Clouds

spectigular:

The works of Anglo-Welsh painter Frank Brangwyn.

Chosen entirely for their artistic value and not at all because topless blacksmith dudes about to smooch.

unhistorical:

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918)

_{I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I’m not certain of whether it’s true.} 

overdose-art:

In Bed | In Bed The Kiss (1892)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec