Vienna was popular then? New literature and art movement? Klimt's works conform to this trend. His works not only pursue the philosophy of painting content and the symbolism of artistic techniques. In fact, Klimt clearly described the inner world of European society at that time in the form of painting. Klimt likes to express female themes very much.

19 at the end of the 20th century, the Art Nouveau movement promoted the rapid development of art? It was born. The Vienna Separatist School aims to oppose the traditional academic art, advocate innovation, emphasize both individuality and combination with reality, and create a new artistic style. The artistic style of Vienna separatists pays attention to plane decoration. As one of the representatives of Vienna separatists, Klimt's works have obvious decorative features, and the style of decorative paintings has become his symbol. He broke the traditional art and created with unique shapes, gorgeous colors and decorative patterns, which reflected the combination of painting art and arts and crafts.

First, the decorative language of the picture

Klimt lives in a new era of industrial development, and all kinds of trendy ideas emerge one after another. Klimt's art is not only influenced by impressionism, new literature movement and symbolism, but also by oriental culture, Austrian and Romanian folk art in Central Europe. More importantly, Klimt visited the Byzantine church of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1903, and the gorgeous mosaics in the church brought him great inspiration. Klimt's early portraits all belong to the traditional academic style. Since the establishment of the Vienna Separatist School, his works have changed greatly in style and are highly decorative. Critics call this period the golden age of Klimt.

Klimt's works in the golden age are very decorative, with complex patterns, strange compositions and mosaic-like piles, and he often uses special techniques such as draining powder, pasting gold foil, pasting feathers and inlaying mother-of-pearl to describe some ideal works. He attached great importance to the use of lines, colors and patterns in the picture and achieved unique artistic effects. The application of these skills is closely related to his own gold carver's father. The structure in Klimt's works is rigorous. The face and bare skin of the characters in the picture are portrayed in a traditional realistic way, which has a three-dimensional effect, while the clothes are represented by plane decoration. Klimt's artistic style is unique. The characters in the picture are outlined with simple lines, which plays the role of dividing the picture and making it more decorative.

From Klimt's works, we can see many oriental elements, such as vortex patterns and line drawing of Chinese paintings. Vortex pattern is a decorative pattern on Neolithic pottery in China. This ancient decorative pattern frequently appears in Klimt's works, creating a sense of mystery. For example, works such as Expectation, Achievement and Stockler Palace Mural are widely used. This symbol with special significance in ancient society is orderly distributed, which adds a sense of form to the picture.

The Kiss, written in the period of 1907- 1908, is the most decorative work in Klimt's golden age, blending elements from Byzantium, Europe and Japan, especially influenced by oriental elements. In the dazzling gold, a strong man kissed his beloved woman. In the picture, the two snuggled up and their bodies were wrapped in an irregular golden circle. The whole picture presents a warm golden tone, the faces and bare hands of the characters are traditional realistic descriptions, and the geometric shapes of men's and women's costumes are like a mosaic. In the picture, the man's body is depicted as a rectangle, and the pattern on the clothes is also composed of rectangles and straight lines. A woman's body is represented by circles and curves. These symbols are symbolic, not only for men and women, but also for rigidity and softness. In the picture, the man is kissing his beloved woman, and the woman looks up and closes her eyes, as if enjoying the wonderful feeling brought by love, but the overall feeling of the picture is sadness and sadness. Because in Klimt's works, gold not only represents wealth and brilliance, but also gives people a mysterious color. This is an abstract moral painting, not a simple expression of love between two people in the picture, but an expression of love that exists in the world and naturally occurs between the opposite sex. There are many things behind love that we can't see. Just like this painting, the men and women in the painting enjoy love, but the picture is full of sadness. This painting is thought-provoking.

It is Klimt's unique aesthetic taste to flexibly apply lines, colors and patterns to his own works. This aesthetic taste gives Klimt's works a sense of form. Different geometric patterns in the picture are decorated, and the texture effect formed by mosaic and powder dipping creates a sense of mystery. For example, in the work Our Lady, there are a group of beautiful girls with tender and moving facial expressions, wearing purple robes with different spiral patterns, lines and patterns, which are endowed with bright colors. The girl's body is interlaced to form an ellipse, which is unique in form with the decorative pattern of the picture. This work shows the feminine beauty of young girls. The ingenious use of lines, colors and patterns not only further sublimates the connotation of the work, but also enhances the formal beauty of the picture.

Second, the symbolic meaning of painting

Vienna was popular then? New literature and art movement? Klimt's works conform to this trend. His works not only pursue the philosophy of painting content and the symbolism of artistic techniques. His works were also influenced by his friend Freud, a famous psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Freud said in Introduction to Psychoanalysis:? The artist's primary goal is to set himself free, and to convey his works to other people whose desires are also suppressed, so that these people can get the same vent. His most personalized fantasies full of wishes are realized in expression, but they have been transformed, eased the seemingly abrupt things in reality, followed the law of beauty, pleased people with happiness as compensation, and then became works of art? Most of Klimt's works use symbolic metaphor to explain the contradiction between his desire and reality. What he likes to express most is people's mental pain, sexual desire, existence, growth and death of life, which he expresses in the form of painting. For example, the work "Life and Death" shows a moral picture of life process. On the right side of the picture, there are beautiful girls, mothers with babies, middle-aged women, strong men and sick old women. They are tightly packed together and look like powerful life bodies. On the right of the picture is the skeleton man, and the transition from green to purple-black from the living body on the right to the skeleton on the left is a symbol of life and death. Life is short, from birth to death, which is the embodiment of essence. Klimt used this abstract painting language to bring us into his spiritual world full of philosophy.

In fact, Klimt clearly described the inner world of European society at that time in the form of painting. Klimt likes to express female themes very much. In his life, his mother had the greatest influence on Klimt. His mother dreamed of becoming an opera singer, but this dream never came true, which led to depression. Influenced by the living environment, his love for women is contradictory. Therefore, all his works, such as religious paintings, portraits and allegorical paintings, are mainly women. The representative works of women's themes include Women's Phase III, Water Snake, Hope, Goldfish, Judith, Hostile Forces and so on. All his works are composed of flat women and freely arranged color patterns, the main part of which is slightly deformed but still maintains the basic structure of the human body. The women in these paintings are immersed in the trance atmosphere of temptation, eroticism and desire, giving people a strong sense of sadness.

Third, the conclusion

Gustav. Klimt is the representative of Vienna separatists. Klimt's exploration of the combination of decoration and symbolism is called? Decorative symbol. Klimt skillfully combined European traditional painting with oriental elements and made a golden stroke in the history of European modern painting development. Today, we stare at Klimt's works and feel that his painting style is quite different from that of contemporary painters. He used his life to write a colorful sad song in the history of painting.

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