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It’s time for something unexpected. We all know the works of Gustav Klimt’s golden age (like The Kiss). But later in his life, Klimt was inspired by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and began to paint in a different but still very decorative way. Here we see a pear tree in full bloom. While the horizontal format was traditionally used for landscape painting, Klimt chose square canvases – a purely geometric shape and the main decorative motif of the Vienna Secession. On a flowering branch, each stroke of paint represents a leaf, flower or fruit. The flat, shimmering colors are reminiscent of both Post-Impressionist paintings and Byzantine mosaics. The left side of the work is painted with significantly denser oil paint than the center or right side. Even after Klimt gave it to his muse and friend and perhaps mistress, Emily Frog in 1903, he continued to add to the painting, filling in the blank spots . Check out our article on the two’s mysterious relationship .
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101 x 101 cm
Art Nouveau
Harvard Art Museums
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