GUSTAV KLIMT

Time and Place:

Vienna during the 1890s

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What is Art Nouveau?

art nouveau noun

(sounds like - art new vO)

Fine Arts. Means new art. This was

a movement that developed during the 1890s. Some characteristics include handmade materials and flat patterns based on stylized plant forms.

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Art Nouveau (French for 'new art')

The name 'Art Nouveau' derived from the name of a shop in Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau, at the time run by Siegfried Bing, that showcased objects that followed this approach to design. The style introduced by Bing was not an immediate success in Paris but rapidly spread to Nancy and to Belgium(especially Brussels) where Victor Horta and Henry Van de Velde would make major contributions in the field of architecture and design. In the United Kingdom Art Nouveau developed out of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Inspiration:
Klimt visited Ravenna, Italy, where he saw early Christian mosaics made from bits of stone and glass that inspired him to paint the patterns in his artwork.

Death and Life

In this composition Klimt incorporated many design elements, such as, colors yellow (gold) and blue and repeated patterns of shapes.
Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907
Oil and gold on canvas, 138 x 138; Austrian Gallery, Vienna Adele Bloch-Bauer clasping her hands (she had a deformed finger). Dressed in gold, surrounded by gold. A very gold picture.

The Kiss Year 1907 08

Format180 x 180 cm Technique Oil on canvas Location Vienna, Osterreichische Museum fr Angewandte Kunst

Mda Primavesi (19032000), 1912 Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862 1918)

Gift of Andr and Clara Mertens, in memory of her mother, Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, 1964 (64.148)

In this portrait, the flower in Madas hair and the row of flowers across her dress link her with the floral patterns in the rug and wallpaper. Klimts style became freer with fewer dense patterns and hard edges in his later years.

Hope, II. 190708. Gustav Klimt. (Austrian, 1862-1918). Oil,

gold, and platinum on canvas, 43 1/2 x 43 1/2" (110.5 x 110.5 cm). Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, and Helen Acheson Funds, and Serge Sabarsky

Gustav Klimt Baby (Cradle), 1917/1918

Gift of Otto and Franciska Kallir with the help of the Carol and Edwin Gaines Fullinwider Fund 1978.

Detail of Baby (Cradle)

The Maiden
1912 - 13

In his landscapes, Klimt left out the human figure. He preferred to concentrate on the patterns formed by the plants and flowers. Klimt used small quick brushstrokes to form a glittering pattern of orange and yellow dots, dashes, and scribbles that resemble tiles in a mosaic.

Compare & Contrast

Contemporary Mosaic by Laurel True

Farm Garden with Sunflower, 1905

Tree of Life
There is a vast amount of detail in this painting. Notice the Egyptian eye sprouting from the branches. There are triangles, swirls, and circles within circles. The colors intensify as you get at the flower garden on the ground. Made from gold and ceramic tiles, exotic woods, glass, and jewels. Tree symbolizes life cycles. Seedpods and other organic shapes represents creativity and rebirth; the black bird symbolizes death.

Collage Technique
Collage or assemblage is a mixed media technique that can involve different items such as: drawing, cut out paper/magazines, paint, fabric, gems, foil and more. Comes from the French word coller meaning glue.

Practice Tree of Life

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You will create your own Tree of Life drawing. In pencil, lightly draw your tree of lifeswirl the branches, add patterns (eyes, circles in circles, etc.) Fill in with color using several techniques, including: crayon, color pencil, graphite, cut construction paper, and markers.

Project - Klimt Collage

Remember Klimts paintings for inspiration in collage portraits. Line, Color, Shape, Pattern, and Emphasis are the focus of this lesson. Composition is important: no central faces/eyes. Using a mixture of magazine cut outs, construction paper, pattern paper, pencils, markers, colored pencils, metallic ink, and drawings, you will create your own Klimt-inspired work that can include faces (portraits), landscapes, and more. Do NOT use a lot of text from magazines: use minimal text if it is relevant, or integrate it into a pattern using color. If you dont clean up properly, your grade will be affected.