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PORTRAIT OF ADELE
The work, in a perfectly square format portrays Adele Bloch-Bauer: it is the daughter of the entrepreneur Maurice Bauer, later married with the son of Baron Bloch, a very important sugar industrialist thanks to whom consecrated his social affirmation. The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is one of the most significant and famous canvases of the so-called "golden age", that klimtiana artistic phase that presents an intense use of the gold color, which here with its brightness floods. -
portrait of danae
So crammed, gently bulky, full of desire, the young woman does not leave a space outside herself. She is curled up as if she were curled up in an armchair. Everything is body. And, above all, the body, Danae's body assuming the shape of a spiral caused by an exasperation of the fetal posture. The young woman, holding a cloth, trying to contain her pleasure and diverting it to different parts of her body, Danae is filled with a superior force. -
TREE OF LIFE
The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze (French: L'Arbre de Vie, Stoclet Frieze) is a painting by an Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. It was completed in 1909 and is based on the Art Nouveau (Modern) style in a symbolic painting genre. The mosaics were created in the artist's Late Works period, and depict swirling Trees of Life, a standing female figure and an embracing couple. -
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of figurative character they concentrate above all on hands and in shadow on the head of Holofernes. The other pictorial elements within the work recompose in the observer's eye the remaining parts of the figure, namely the woman's hair and her dress, which can only be seen after careful evaluation as being isolated and loose from an idea of plasticity and adaptation to the voluminous forms of the body The typical spiraling lines mix with circles
