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subscribe to style file blog via RSSthe gold standard of gustav klimt
June 2, 2008 9:47 am
As Liverpool revels in its status as 2008’s European Capital of Culture, Tate Liverpool is launching a sparking retrospective of works by Gustav Klimt, the Viennese painter whose decadent Art Nouveau style has been the gold standard for opulent art since the twentieth century began. In “Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900,” the first exhibition in Britain devoted to the founder and leader of the Vienna Secession, Tate Liverpool charts the widespread influence that Klimt’s use of gold leaf, gilt, and sensual lines has had on architects, designers, and other artists. Major paintings and drawings, including his 1918 painting of a tiny infant snugly enveloped in a mound of brilliantly patterned fabric and his 1904 painting of a radiant gold mermaid embracing another sea sprite, are on view alongside work by the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann, whose gold- and pearl-encrusted belt buckle is one of the stars of the show. It would be the perfect accessory to wear with the Klimt-inspired couture that John Galliano launched this season at Dior.
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