Patterns everywhere… everyday

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In his artwork he uses alot of gold backgrounds amazing colors and

patterns!

What is a pattern?

A design that repeats

Use words to describe it

What patterns do you see?

Garden Path With Chickens 1916

Expectation, 1905-09, mixed media with silver and gold leaf on paper

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Gustav Klimt was born in near Vienna, Austria, the second of seven children. He lived in poverty for most of his childhood. He was one of seven children - 6 boys and one girl. At the age of 14 life started to look up. Klimt was allowed to study at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. This was a very big art school and it was an honour!

He died in Vienna on February 6, 1918. Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices of any artwork sold!

                                            

Klimt took three years to complete the painting.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

It Sold for $135 million!

Vienna during the 1890’s

This Austrian Capital was a vital cultural and scientific center.

Interactive map of Austria

Time and Place:

Gustav Klimt, born. July 14, 1862, died. Feb. 6, 1918,

He has been called the top example of ART NOUVEAU.

What is Art Nouveau? (sounds like - art new vO)

art nou·veau  –noun Means “new art”. This was a

movement that developed during the 1890’s.

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Art Nouveau (French for 'new art')

Inspiration:

Klimt visited Ravenna, Italy, where he saw early Christian mosaics made from bits of stone and glass that inspired him

to paint the patterns in his artwork.

Death and Life

Two portraits of Emily Floge

Emily Floge at the age of 17, 1891.

Portrait of Emily Floge, 1902

He earlier work is a highly realistic, formal portrait.

The second portrait has a

stylized dream-like quality with a

realistic face.

Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907

Adele Bloch-Bauer clasping her hands (she had a deformed finger)..

many design elements, such as,

colors yellow (gold) and blue and repeated

patterns of shapes.

The Kiss

Year 1907 – 08

Format180 x 180 cm

Technique Oil on canvas

Location Vienna, Osterreichische

Museum für Angewandte Kunst

                           

                  

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000),

1912

In this portrait, the flower in Mada’s hair and the row of

flowers across her dress link her with the floral patterns in the rug and wallpaper.

Klimt’s style became freer with fewer dense patterns and hard edges in his later

years.

The Maiden

1912 - 13

Farm Garden with Sunflower, 1905

Contemporary Mosaic by Laurel True

Tree of Life

There is a vast amount of detail in this painting.

Notice the “Egyptian eye” sprouting from the branches.

There are triangles, swirls, and circles within circles.

The colors intensify as you get at the flower garden on the ground.

Made from gold and ceramic tiles, exotic woods, glass, and jewels.

Tree symbolizes life cycles. Seedpods and other organic shapes represents creativity and rebirth; the black bird symbolizes death.

Gustav KlimtTree of Life

Gustav Klimt painted the “Tree of Life”which is an important symbol in nearly

every culture.

The Tree of Life represents wisdom, protection, strength, and beauty. It

reaches up into the sky and down into the earth. It links Heaven, Earth, and

the Underworld.

The swirled branches make people want to keep looking at the painting

to explore and find more.

Even with the mixed up patterns and swirly branches we still will always

recognize it as The Tree of Life.

Gustav KlimtTree of Life

Gustav Klimt painted the “Tree of Life”which is an important symbol in nearly

every culture.

The Tree of Life represents wisdom, protection, strength, and beauty. It

reaches up into the sky and down into the earth. It links Heaven, Earth, and

the Underworld.

The swirled branches make people want to keep looking at the painting

to explore and find more.

Even with the mixed up patterns and swirly branches we still will always

recognize it as The Tree of Life.

Gustav KlimtTree of Life1. Draw a ground line and the

center tree trunk with a pencil. Add curly branches to the left and right. Add more curls wherever they fit.2. Trace all the pencil lines with a chisel-tip black Sharpie marker. Add some extra thickness to the tree trunk and beginning of the

branches.3. Paint the ground one color Paint splotches of color all over the tree

and background. Overlap the splotches a bit so that the colors run

together.

Gustav KlimtTree of Life

1. Draw center tree trunk.2. Add one curvy branch to the right and one to the left.3. Centre two more curvy

branches on either side. Draw the ground line behind the

tree.4. Add small curvy branches.5. Add small abstract triangle leaves and mushroom shapes.6. Add abstract designs inside

the tree and on the ground. Erase the lines where the branches are added on.

7. Trace all the lines with a permanent black marker.

Color the tree.