For Gustav Klimt Lovers

Wow, I love his work, beautiful!

OMG I WANNA GO THERE... I WANNA SEE IT, I WANNA EXPERIENCE IT, BATHE IN IT!!!

Ditto ^^^

Ohhhhhhh, thank you, am mesmerized,glowing,loving.........

Amazing! Thanks Marlene :-)

Ugh... Sorry, had to be one. Not a lover but thank you for sharing :-)

LOL Abbie, too much Bling-bling? ;-)

Way too much lol

I'm with Abbie, Klimt is not my cup of tea. However, the exhibit concept is great.

Uh, that's why I titled the thread for LOVERS. ;)

Oh come on, Marlene.... You had to know......

Lol. And rather me than some of those others;-)

hehe...now is the time to tell yourself to move on
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BUT, before you do, what artist would you envision in such an all encompassing exhibit?

I love it! Amazing

It would be cool to see it in person and maybe then I would have a different reaction but it seems too much like a fun house ride to appreciate it for more than that.. I guess I prefer art that just hangs there rather than to have it swirling all around me.

I know you said Klimt Lovers, but I wanted to recognize how great the concept is. A Van Gogh all encompassing exhibit would be thrilling!!

I agree, Jim!
I'm keeping my eye on Atilier Lumieres (Paris) to see what's up next!

van Gogh

or me....

Degas...Monet.....

Fantastic, thanks for sharing Marlene.

Way too much - and me and Val Arie agree. But then, I'm not a Klimt lover (or van Gogh) for that matter.

I love the exhibit. The older I get the more I appreciate Klimt.

The most powerful version of that perhaps Pollock. Love him or hate him, his splatters would be overwhelming in that venue.

Dave

I adore Klimt, but that exhibit is overwhelming to me. I can barely watch the video.

I believe there is a HUGE difference between watching a video of it, where scenes are changing quickly, and being IN it...where you pace yourself in each spot in the building....

I am loving him now! I've never been a fan until that video, really puts out there how much detail there is to the artwork of Klimt.

rent "woman in gold" starring Helen Mirren, the niece of the woman who sat for Klimt's famous portrait....marvelous film!

I'm huge fan Marlene! Fantastic thanks for sharing! :)C

It's obviously cool.
But when I see stuff like that, I can't help but think, "How much of this is artistic expression, and how much is just availability to resources?"

Wow. Wish I could be there.

Yes, you definitely need access to resources to be able to make art on this scale. I don't think that takes away from it.

I'm guessing that a lot of it, if not all, are projected images on walls....

You're probably right, Marlene.
People are doing amazing things with digital projection these days.

Still, no small feat.

Not at all, Joe! To me, it is next generation viewing art... becoming part of it. Getting inside it.

When I first saw the video, I thought the environment was a computer generated environment.
https://youtu.be/RUMUm4gvkWA

yes, Drew, same place....Atelier des lumieres

"How much of this is artistic expression, and how much is just availability to resources?"

Joe,

Isn't that the definition of a cultural progression?

Dave

Maybe so, Dave.
But while culture progresses, I might argue that human experience doesn't.

How much stimulation is required to feel stimulated?

Human experience is not easy to generalize.

Human beings are not as good to each other as I would have hoped.

Joe, it is interesting some years ago Dr. Drye put out a video of arriving in the dessert at a dance fest. He got out of his limo with women on either side of him. The music was studio produced. Kendrick Lamar this year is putting out similar stuff in a sense, but now the studio produced music is distorted as if heard from inside the audience instead of in the sound booth.

I do not like the distorted music. I think it is a flop, but it is selling for now. Most of the kids do not realize what the distortion represents. It represents their experiences.

Overkill? Digital overkill? Yes.

But what were the pyramids then? Would we deny them as well?

Dave

Again, I would say, "How much of this is artistic expression, and how much is just availability to resources?"

That being said, the pyramids speak toward something far beyond the temporary disposability of modern trickery.

Why is digital TV screens trickery? I do not think the word applies.

Flickers of photons? Here for a moment and gone.

Why build to a non existent Ra?

Dave

Less about Ra, more about permanence and achievement.
Not to mention the integrity of their minimalistic form.

Flickering photons are cool.
They mimic whatever you pump into them.
But one could easily create a very similar experience to the OP video with a few projectors from Amazon and some GIFs ripped from Facebook.

Yep, but the architecture is a larger part of this story. You need to project those images onto something.

I have made the comparison to discuss the folly of human kind. There are some gems that come out of the folly. They do not need to be permanent. Irony is the internet is turning out to be one of the least stable impermanent communication forms. Turn off the server, take it off line, destroy the hard drive and all is lost hence forth.

Dave

Joe,
One could, but the atelier that has presented Klimt has created a permanent space in Paris and has plans to highlight other artists in the future....ones whose work is worthy for such an installation. Klimt was a marvelous choice for his use of light and gold....

Yep to both.
Thanks for poking around with me.
You guys are fun.

I can see what you are saying Joe. Like I said, I thought the environment was a computer generated environment until I researched it.

Something along the same lines...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/learning/is-the-digital-era-improving-or-ruining-the-experience-of-art.html

I went to the national museum in D.C. the summer of 2016 and it was great! Da vinci's drawing were on display and virtually every master is represented there with excellent representative art. I never felt overcrowded and was able to spend hours browsing the collection.
I can get a direct flight to DC. It's a little over an hour flight and I can catch the subway at the airport and it goes directly into DC. I hope to make a day trip there soon. Fly in about 9am and fly out about 11pm all for about $120 round trip.

That was refreshing! Thanks for sharing it!

Drew,

$120? I now have to wonder how much it is from Hartford to DC. Some day I might make that trip as well.


Dave

Dave, i just check jet blue and it is $155 round trip now. by the time one figures the cost of the metro and food which can be purchased in abundance from food truck around the national plaza,~ $200. if you stay the night figure $500/person. I've seen plane tickets as low as $120 round trip off season. All the museums are free in DC. what cost in hotels!. I took a family of 4 for 6 night and we stayed in Alexandria, VA. THATz a whole different story there!

Was on vacation in Austria a few weeks ago and visited the Belvedere Palace, where Klimt's KISS is on display. Have a better understanding of him and his work, to see what he made from a close up and personal perspective.

His painting is everything a photo is not, heavily influenced by the use of gold by the ancient Egyptians, as most see and know off it in this way as a photo, yet better described as a picture that contains all types of art, not excluding elements photography, as it is also present.

The KISS is a laboured piece of Art, that looks as if a million hours was spent making it, which also makes it difficult to forge and is far to big to steal.

More important..

The KISS is a romantic work of Art, that can be loved and cherrished by the masses till eternity.

Alan, thank you SO much for your post......as artists, so many of us just ache to see everything up close and personal, knowing that a photo in an art history cannot do the original work any justice.
Your description validates my belief that choosing Klimt for such an exhibit, infused with light and gold, was the perfect choice!

Thank you Marlene...

Klimt well deserves his place in Art history. While studying all the master they also justify their existence in one way or another.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to see the European masters artwork up close.

The key to making sense of all these geniuses of art, is to look at their art up close and personal, otherwise it is just second hand knowledge past on.

Art is a universal language but not many people are reading it.

Remember most people where illiterate so story telling with art was important.

This is why religion and art were made for each other, that churches were intended to be read like a picture book of what heaven and he'll looked like, just for example.

What we call "The Masters" were mostly in search of rich patrons, so as to keep themselves alive, many failed and died poor but on the positive side became very wealthy in the afterlife LOL

you can say that again!

for you Marlene, just uploaded it.

;) thank you

Thanks so much for sharing this, Marlene. It is delightful.

You are very welcome, Carla!

Found a Klimt hangout while in Vienna, anyone interested?
This cafe is situated across the street from the palace that houses Klimt's KISS.

We will be in Paris in September and i just purchased tickets for the Klimt show at Atelier des Lumières... TRÉS EXITÉ!!!

For some reason I feel like spraying my drawings with cat pee.

Very exciting, Ed!
Ronald, I have no clue what prompted that random comment, but I'll close this thread now. thanks