Wasserschlangen - Water snakes

Date: 1907
Medium: tempera
Location: private collection
Dimensions: 145 x 80

Water snakes consist of two works of the same name, in which Gustav Klimt back on a sensuous female in the water. There captured two naked female body in a dramatic embrace of love. Clear skin, anatomical styling lines, exaggerated in an attempt to evoke deep emotions spiritualistic character of both female characters. Attitudes, gestures and facial expressions expressing passionate love and the most fragile tenderness. At the time, the course was the least outrageous picture. Therefore Klimt added fish symbol in the bottom left corner with a blank expression, for which there is a tentacle vine tendrils further supplemented plátkovaného ornaments of gold. The images were painted in watercolor and tempera on parchment.

Klimt painted picture Wasserschlangen - Water snakes in 1907. Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is long. Original size is 145 x 80. This art piece is located in a private collection This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). As a painter, Klimt represents the best period of Vienna – a time when the works of Sigmund Freud or Mahler were developing, and Vienna was at the very least the Central European centre of culture and education. Klimt’s work combines symbolism and Byzantine features that create the undertone of his Art Nouveau style. Klimt’s images have a special, even anxious, atmosphere that often shows the Freudian idea of ​​erotica in any human movement and action. Klimt paints two-dimensionally, with intense colour while at the same time very gently and with refined dignity. Among Klimt’s famous works are the Water Snakes - two women with stylized, interwoven bodies that evoke the surreal world of fantasy and sensuality. Another masterpiece is Danae, a work inspired by Greek mythology, depicting a girl seized by Zeus, who was turned into a golden rain (Danae later gave birth to Perseus). His paintings often aroused passions and public protests, not only for their content but also for the innovative painting methods - eg. The Girlfriends, an image of two women at a romantic meeting.

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