Gustav Klimt Essays

  • Gustav Klimt Essay

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    Artist Report - Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt, one of the most prominent figures in the Vienna Secession movement, was born July 14, 1862 in Baumgartner, Vienna—making him the second oldest of seven kids. Though he wasn’t the only child who showed artistic promise early on he is the most memorable of the group. Despite growing up in poverty he was still able to attend the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied and received training as an architectural painter until 1883. While enrolled

  • The Life and Accomplishments of Gustav Klimt

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    Gustav Klimt (GUUS-tahf klimt), perhaps best known for his controversial style, came from humble beginnings and was trained in classical style. After years of serving as an architectural painter of murals throughout Vienna, he was criticized for his overtly erotic style. This criticism served as a turning point in his career. He then revised his own sense of artistic value that ultimately led to his fall from the conservative academic art world to self discovery with an inventive and versatile

  • Gustav Klimt Essay

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    Gustav Klimt, his artworks and their meaning. Gustav Klimt is Austrian painter that was born in 1862 - Baumgarten, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His movements and styles: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, The Vienna Secession, The Wiener Werkstätte. During all of his life, he was the most favorite and respected artist in Austria. Society started to show him love from his first work while he was studying in university (at that time he was creating his works with all kind of rules existing in the world) till

  • Egon Schiele's Self-Portrait

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    Egon Schiele's Self-Portrait When I look at this portrait, the first thing that hits me is the way the artist, Egon Schiele, appears to have made himself look animated, like a cartoon. The way in which his right eye is rounded like a cartoon character and his left eye is squinting and almost shut, adds to the idea of a the portrait being a cartoon. The squinted left eye is as if he is sneaking around and evaluating his surroundings. If you cover the right side of the face (with the widely opened

  • Gustav Klimt's Contributions to Art

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    Literacy Research Paper: Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten near Vienna in Ausrtia-Hungary on July 14, 1862(Eva Di Stefano pg. 20) and passed away on February 6, 1918. Gustav was the second of seven children which included three boys and four girls. Klimt's mother, Anna Klimt aspired to be a musical performer(Lisa Florman). Gustav's father, Ernst Klimt was formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver. Gustav was an Austrian symbolist painter and was one of the major members of the Vienna

  • Gustav Klimt Hope Analysis

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    Modern Art of Hope, II Gustav Klimt, who was the symbolism artist, painted Hope, II on canvas in 1907-1908 using oil paint, gold, and platinum. It’s 43 1/2 x 43 1/2” (110.5 x 110.5 cm) in size. The painting is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It is in the Painting and Sculpture I, Gallery 4, Floor 5. Klimt chose a nude pregnant woman with the unborn child and three women in the painting because he wanted people to analyze and feel his artwork. Therefore, Klimt’s symbolic

  • Norbert Schwontkowski Essay

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    Norbert Schwontkowski was a German painter who born in Bremen-Blumenthal in 1949 and died in Bremen in 2013. He studied painting at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Bremen and became a professor of painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künst at Hamburg. He had his first solo exhibition in 1973 at the art show Böttcherstraße in Bremen. From the muted colour palette to the surreal landscapes, Norbert Schwontkowski captured the isolation in human psychology. He likes to play with the unconscious and

  • What Is Analyzing The Stolen Kiss By Jean-Honoré Fragonard

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    The Stolen Kiss by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1760) is an oil on canvas painting depicting a young man attempting to steal a kiss from a young woman to her own dismay while another young woman holds her hands and watches the scene unfold. Once belonged to Bailli de Bréteuil, this painting is a great example of the Rococo style of art. The bodies of the three figures in the painting are in correct proportion and are very naturalistic, a hierarchy of scale is not present. A sense of weight is seen in

  • What Is The Meaning Behind The Kiss By Gustav Klimt

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    Gustav Klimt's The Kiss is one of my favorite art paintings. Gustav Klimt was a nineteenth century Australian painter that had a very unique and sensual style of drawing (sketching) and painting. He painted many different categories—women, landscapes, trees, and gardens. I think he is well known for his drawings of women. He was a perfectionist and worked early morning until late afternoon. “True relaxation, which would do me a world of good, does not exist for me” (Klimt). Gustav Klimt created The

  • Proximity and Juxtaposition

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    relationship as well. An example of this is in Gustav Klimt’s art work (see last 2 pages) titled, "The Kiss" (Gombridge 65). In Klimt’s painting a man and a woman are placed next to each other in an interesting way. The forms of their bodies are distorted and resemble the abstraction of melting and movement. There is an obvious relationship between the two forms which would not be as apparent if the forms were not juxtaposed the way that Klimt chose to. The bodies are vertically aligned, so

  • Reinhold Niebuhr

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    Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, on June 21, 1892 as the son of Gustav and Lydia Niebuhr. His father, Gustav was an immigrant from Germany and became an ordained minister of the German Evangelical Synod after graduating from Eden Seminary at St. Louis, the training school for ministers of the Deutsche Evangelical Synod of North America. His mother was a daughter of German Evangelical Synod missionary, Edward Hosto. Gustav and Lydia had four children, Hulda, Walter, Reinhold, and Helmut Richard

  • Gustav von Aschenbach's Death in Venice

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    Gustav von Aschenbach's Death in Venice Prior to his encounter with Tadzio, Gustav von Aschenbach in "Death in Venice" is not an artist to be creatively inspired by sensuous beauty. Rather, his motivation derives from a desire to be accepted and appreciated by his audience, his "whole soul, from the very beginning, [being] bent on fame." [1] Nor does Aschenbach create in moments of ecstasy: being called to the constant tension of his career, not actually born to it (9), he is able to write only

  • Gustav Mahler

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    Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia, on July 7, 1860. At the time, Bohemia (later to form a major component of Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic) was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, then enduring its final crumbling decades, and the region where Mahler spent his youth was strongly associate with the Czech independence movement. However, Mahler also was a Jew, and Jews in the region were associated by ethnic Czechs with Germans. Mahler famous quote is: "I am thrice homeless, as a

  • Gustav Robert Kirchhoff

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    Born: 12 March 1824 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) Died: 17 Oct 1887 in Berlin, Germany Gustav Kirchhoff 's father was Friedrich Kirchhoff, a lawyer in Königsberg. Gustav's mother was Johanna Henriette Wittke. In 1988 Gustav Kirchhoff went to the Albertus University of Königsberg to study math when he was at the age of 18. In 1833 Frans Neuman and Jakobi set up a mathematics-physics seminar at Königsberg. Kirchhoff attented at the seminar from 1843 to 1846. It was while

  • Carl Gustav Jung and the Buddhist Mandala

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    Carl Gustav Jung and the Buddhist Mandala A one-time disciple of Sigmund Freud's, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) is credited with contributing significantly to the burgeoning field of psychotherapy by formulating some of the first ideas regarding dream analysis, psychological complexes and archetypes (paradigmatic images or instinctive impulses to action). As part of his search for universal keys to the human psyche, Jung also studied and wrote numerous commentaries throughout his career on Eastern

  • Mood, Atmosphere and Place in The Return of the Native

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    Mood, Atmosphere and Place in The Return of the Native Throughout The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy is very successful in creating mood and atmosphere.  Some scenes are so descriptive that a very clear mental picture can be formed by the reader, causing a distinct sense of place.  It seems that through his words, Hardy is submerging the readers into his story letting us take part only as an onlooker.  It is at the beginning that the strongest mood, the heaviest atmosphere and the most obvious

  • Gustav Stresemann Essay

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    Gustav Stresemann, the Reichskanzler of Weimar Republic and a German Foreign Minister in 1923-1929, had a short-term significance on Germany’s role in Europe as his diplomatic skills and policies of cooperation helped his country to ultimately gain its equality in the European arena. From its birth until 1923, the Weimar faced problems, which seemed to reduce under Stresemann’s time in power when “diplomacy served as a lightning rod for the currents of opposition to the Weimar Republic.” Stresemann’s

  • Mozart Analysis

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    I attended the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Kiesler on January 25th. They performed Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and all pieces from The Planets suite by Gustav Holst (1874-1934). I loved the venue of the performance, it was very warm and inviting. Of all the pieces performed, I think I liked Mars, The Bringer of War and Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity the most. The titles of the pieces really helped immerse me into the music

  • Return Of The Native Essay

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    Review of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy The return of the native was written by Thomas hardy in 1878, the story is based on a place called Egdon heath. When hardy wrote the novel it was the time of Charles Darwin, he had written his book ;on the origin of the species' so this was a big influence on hardy's view of god and evolution, it was also the time of the

  • Thomas Hardy's The Withered Arm

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    Thomas Hardy's The Withered Arm In Thomas Hardy's "The Withered Arm" Gertrude Lodge and Rhoda Brook, although two very different people, from different classes and upbringings, are linked by their love for one man, Farmer Lodge. With the help of fate their two separate destiny's become one. In the beginning we believe that Rhoda is the one who is responsible in the role of fate but as the story progresses we see that the burden is placed more and more upon Gertrude's shoulders. Throughout