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Expressionist Artists in Vienna : Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss”
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Klimt
$13.40 John Malkovich stars as controversial Austrian painter Gustav Klimt in this compelling and stylish biodrama. On his deathbed, Klimt is visited by a fellow artist, to whom he reveals the incredible details of his upbringing and his career during the early 20th century, as well as the wild affairs he conducted with the women who inspired his acclaimed--and often scandalous--works. Saffron Burrows, N... |
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Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary
$14.39 Gustav Klimtâs decorative, seductive style, jewel-like colors, use of gold and pattern, and sensuous line, continue to captivate art lovers today. One of the masters of modern European painting, he helped found the popular Viennese Secession, or Art Nouveau, movement. This lushly illustrated volume explores his fascinating artistic career, covering Vienna at the time of Klimtâs creative ... |
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Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 (Basic Art)
$5.00 Gustav Klimt's art is thoroughly fin de siecle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore plays an important role in Klimt's art... |
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Gustav Klimt (Best Of Collection)
$13.43 Â Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), was one of the most influential artists at the end of the 19th century and was the founder of the Viennese Secession movement. He used the movement to express his criticism of traditional art, which was characterised by its opposition to change and the refusal to countenance a certain vision of Modernism. Klimt took his inspiration from the slow but unstoppable decli... |
