Description
100×70 cm
oil on canvas
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is an Austrian painter, one of the best known representatives of the Art Nouveau style.
For this study painting I used a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I., painted by Gustav Klimt.
The background, technique remained pretty much that, but I used another female figure (Egyptian style).
For this study painting I used a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I., painted by Gustav Klimt.The background, technique remained pretty much that, but I used another female figure (Egyptian style).This painting is not the result of my enthusiasm for Klimt (because he isn’t one of my favorite painters), but it was the technique I wanted to learn, the technique of golding was very interested. It is called gold plating when we apply genuine metal to the surface in some form for decoration (use of thin metal foils, smoke films and their adhesives and gold pigments). The technique was very impressive (my master, Kalman Gasztonyi introduced me to the mysteries of this).
What you need to know about the technique of the original Adele Bloch-Bauer I. portrait, in short:
Adele Bloch-Bauer's portrait (also known as Woman in Gold) is a portrait by Gustav Klimt. The portrait is the last and most fully representative work of Klimt's golden phase. The painting consists of oil paint, silver and gold foils on a canvas base. Adele's hair, face, cleavage and hands are painted in oil.
Dr Frank Whitford (an art historian and critic, and a leading expert on 20th century British German and Austrian art) identifies the influences of Byzantine, Egyptian, Mycenaean and Greek art, describing it as "gold is like Byzantine mosaics;
the eyes on the cloth are Egyptian motifs, the repeated scrolls and curls are from Mycenaean culture."
