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Eye Candy for Today: Klimt

Death and Life, Gustav Klimt
Death and Life, by Gistav Klimt.

On Google Art Project, click on image for zoom controls.

Original is in the Leopold Museum, Vienna.

OK, not one of Klimt’s more lighthearted works, but beautiful nonetheless.

Death and Life, by Gistav Klimt

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2 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Klimt”

  1. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Gustav_Klimt_2012_Pressefoto09.jpg

    What a surprise to find Klimt is Austrian. Always had the impression he was Scandinavian because his name Gustav is.

  2. http://www.nypl.org/node/160896/video
    To make up for my ignorance here is a video of an Austrian scientist who approached art in a scientific way.
    ERIC KANDEL: THE AGE OF INSIGHT: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, From Vienna 1900 to the Present. A conversation with Paul Holdengräber
    Video (212MB MP4, 1 hr 36 min)
    Viel Vergnügen! Enjoy!