Gustav KlimtMrs. Hurd’s Artroom

Klimt is noted for his style,paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects

WRITE DOWN FACTS, THINGS OF INTERESTS, PATTERNS, & INSPIRATION. FOR A GRADE!

YOU SHOULD BE TAKING NOTES DURING PPT!!!

Your sketchbook note page should look something like this:Gustav Klimt

Facts from power point

Fill boxes in with patterns & designs

Date of Birth/Death

Where did he live?

Why is he famous?

Facts & qualities about art work.

Who is Gustav Klimt?

• Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which sold for a record $135 million in 2006. Neue Galerie, New York.

Born July 14, 1862Died Feb. 6, 1918,

One of seven children, very poor childhood

Austrian painter and illustrator

Austria was one of the most important centers for science and culture in the 1890’s

Klimt founded the school of painting known as the Vienna Secession

He has been called the top example of ART NOUVEAU.

In this composition Klimt incorporated many design elements, such as, complementary colors orange (gold) and blue and repeated patterns of shapes. What shapes do you see?

Definitions:

Vienna Succession

• Style that embodies the high-keyed free spirited, psychological, and aesthetic preoccupations of turn-of-the-century Vienna's dazzling intellectual world

Art Nuevo

• Fine Arts. a style of fine and applied art current in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized chiefly by curvilinear motifs often derived from natural forms.

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

Two portraits of Emily Floge

Emily Floge at the age of 17, 1891.

Portrait of Emily Floge, 1902

He earlier work is a highly realistic, formal portrait.

The second portrait has a stylized dream-like quality with a realistic face.

Two portraits of Emily Floge

                              

Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi 1913-1914

Klimt, Gustav Oil on canvas

140 x 85 cmToyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan

The women in many of Klimt’s portraits were the wives of wealthy Viennese businessmen and art collectors.

The Maiden 1912 - 13

                           

                  

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), 1912Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918)Gift of André and Clara Mertens, in memory of her mother, Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, 1964 (64.148)

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

Medicine (Hygieia)

1900 – 07Format 430 x 300 cm

Technique Oil on canvas

Location Burned in Schlob Immendorf, Austria, 1945

The University of Vienna rejected Klimt’s Medicine mural because his mystical, snake handling priestess did not fit the University professors’ image of the physician as a scientist and healer.

The Kiss

Year 1907 – 08

Format180 x 180 cm

Technique Oil on canvas

Location Vienna, Osterreichische Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Hope, II. 1907-08. 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

 

__1. Simplified, stylized shapes__2. Thick, flat, hard-edged patterns__3. Adele Block-Bauer__4. Snake__5. Repeat Patterns__6. Transparent sketchy lines__7. Egyptian Eyes__8. Made Primavesi__9. Hygieia__10.Curving, spiral shapes__11. Realistic three-dimensional shapes__12. Gustav Klimt__13. Emily Floge__14. Art Noveau__15. Mosaiclike Patters__16. Negative figure/positive patterns__17. Eugnia Primavesi__18. Two-diminsional patterns__19. Loose, free brushwork__20. Gold patterns

Gustav Klimt - Assessment

Working with Pattern

1. What kind of city was Vienna during the 1890s?2. What is Art Nouveau?3. How does Klimt’s style differ in the two portraits

of Emily Floge?4. Why did the university of Vienna reject Klimt’s

Medicine mural?5. What did Klimt see in 1903 that would inspire

the patterns in his artwork?

Hub for Culture & Science

Expressive, curviliner, floral motiffs, erotic

Photorealism vs. stylized-dream like with realistic face

because his mystical, snake handling priestess did not fit the University professors’ image a scientist and healer.

Visit to Ravenna, Italy-where he saw early Christian mosaics

7. Why might his paintings be considered a “painted mosaic”?

10.Who were the women in many of Klimt’s

portraits?11.What elements did Klimt incorporate into

paintings such as Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer?

12.In Portrait of Mada Primavesi, what elements link the subject with her surroundings?

complementary colors yellow (gold) and blue and repeated patterns of shapes

the flower in Mada’s hair and the row of flowers across her dress link her with the floral patterns in the rug and wallpaper.

Klimt used small quick brushstrokes to form a glittering pattern of orange and yellow dots, dashes, and scribbles that resemble tiles in a mosaic. Not to mention repetitive pattern/shapes and gold leaf

Your sketchbook practice page should look something like this:

Figure Proportions

Drawing Notes/Tips & Tricks

How many heads make up a figue?

Where do the hands go?

Length, shape, of features

Practice Drawing

Figure Proportions: 7 ½ heads