The flat patterning in his paintings "Beech Woods" and "Farm Garden" reveal his training in decorative arts, as does the organic scrolling in the Tree of Life.
The flat patterning in his paintings "Beech Woods" and "Farm Garden" reveal his training in decorative arts, as does the organic scrolling in the Tree of Life. A snake wraps around the red-robed figure of Hygieia at the bottom of his painting Medicine, which was displayed with the paintings Philosophy and Jurisprudence. He also painted the Stoclet Frieze, but a better known work was painted after his trip to Ravenna, where he saw the Byzantine mosaics in San Vitale. That work contrasted masculine, black and gray rectangles with colorful, feminine circles and wavy lines in his depiction of two figures perched on a green hill spotted with purple flowers. Also known for two portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer, FTP, name this Symbolist and leader of the Vienna Secession who painted The Kiss.
The flat patterning in his paintings "Beech Woods" and "Farm Garden" reveal his training in decorative arts, as does the organic scrolling in the Tree of Life.
Gustav {Klimt}