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Gustav Klimt: The “Golden Phase”

DateThursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:16AM

The Kiss, oil on canvas by Gustav Klimt, 1907–08; in the Österreichische Gallery, Vienna. 180 ×180 cm. (click photo for larger image)One of the best-known works of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), went on the block in 2006 and fetched a reported $135 million, a record at the time. (click photo for larger image)Gustav Klimt  (1862-1918) was an Austrian painter, and the founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession. This group of painters revolted against academic art in favor of a highly decorative style, similar to Art Nouveau. Klimt’s most successful works include The Kiss (1907–08), and a series of portraits of fashionable Viennese women, such as Frau Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907). In these portraits he treats the human figure without the use of shadow, and heightens the lush sensuality of skin by surrounding it with flat, highly decorative, and brilliantly composed areas of decoration. Klimt enjoyed both critical and financial success during this period--dubbed his “Golden Phase” because of the prominent use of gold leaf in the paintings of this time.

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The exhibit of Klimt's sketches at the Getty was incredible. It filled me with awe.

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