Carte Postale Gustav Klimt The Hope II 1907-1908 Postcard

"Whoever wants to know something about me — as an artist, the only notable thing — ought to look carefully at my pictures and try to see in them what I am and what I want to do." — Klimt1 Gustav Klimt painted Hope II on canvas in 1907/8 using opail Points, Gold, and platinum. 43,5 x 43,5 pouces (110,5 x 110,5 cm) en size. The painting is part of the collection of the Musuem of Modern Art in New York. Hope II est un Beautiful example of Klimt's use of gold leaf in a paintings and his rich ornamental style. Que l'on passe par la figure principale, que l'on trouve dans le corps de l'abstracted shape decorated with circles yet we still read it as a cloak or dress. How at the bottom it melds into the three other faces. Dans sa biographie de Klimt, art. critic Frank Whitford says Klimt "applied real gold and silver leaf in order to heighten still further the impression at the painting is a precious object, not remotely a mirror in which nature can be glimpsed but a carefully wrought artefact". Il s'agit d'un symbole de ce qui s'est passé dans le silence du lendemain, qui a été validé, et qui a été tourné dans le silence comme une commission d'évaluation. Klimt lived in Vienna in Austria and drew his inspiration more from the East than the West, from "such sources as Byzantine art, Mycenean metalwork, Persian rugs and miniatures, the mosaics of the Ravenna churches, and Japanese screens".