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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Allegoric representation of Music, which Klimt painted several times in various renderings. Besides the lyre, symbol of music, this particular canvas emphasises the sphinx, the Silenus mask on the ...

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

Enhanced by the golden frame created by Klimt's brother, Georg, the goddess Athena is portrayed in front of a frieze. The red hair comes out of the helmet so as to underscore the goddess' ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

A realistic portrait of pianist and piano teacher Joseph Pembauer. The face's photographic realism generates a subtle tension with the symbolism of the stylised elements.

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

For its evanescent rarefaction the love scene reveals its symbolist mould. The work is part of Klimt's series of Allegories and Emblems, whose intent was to translate life's most significant ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and ...

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

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Great Blossary. Very informative.

03:25, 6 August 2014
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