Description
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:
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is a painting by Gustav Klimt. The portrait is the final and most fully representative work of Klimt's golden phase. The painting it is composed of oil paint and silver and gold leaf on canvas. Adele's hair, face, décolletage and hands are painted in oil.
Dr Frank Whitford (was an art historian and critic, and one of Britain’s leading experts on 20th-century German and Austrian art) identifies influences of the art of the Byzantine, Egypt, Mycenae and Greece, describing that "the gold is like that in Byzantine mosaics; the eyes on the dress are Egyptian, the repeated coils and whorls Mycenaean.”
