Emilie Floge

Judith

The Kiss

The Kiss

I researched Gustav Klimt because he was an influential part of the Art Nouveau. He was an Austrian Symbolist painter and of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, his works are marked by a frank eroticism, nowhere is this more apparent than is his numerous drawings in pencil e.g. Mulher Sentada. I used inspiration from Gustav Klimt's work in my first main piece of A2, because of the patterns and the use of colours. I really like the way he used simple shapes to create intricate patterns. I had a go at using the sort of shapes Klimt uses to fill in blank spaces. One of the most common themes Klimt used was that of the dominant woman, the femme fatale.