Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition IX


Midas In Vienna: Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)




Music, 1895




Pallas Athene, 1898




Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, 1907




Hope, 1907




Water Serpents II, c. 1907




Tree of Life, 1909


'It is not possible that a piece of sculpture, a piece of music which gives us an emotion which we feel to be more exalted, more pure, more true, does not correspond to some definite spiritual reality.'

Marcel Proust