Nice video with a vibe. Klimt certainly liked women and the sax (though playing a Bach piece) is usually associated with a very sexy sound. Klimt’s women are very stylized and rich but sometimes there is a perverse quality, a dark femme fatale peeking out and I know he is considered a Symbolist painter. That whole time was the beginning of modern psychology and psychiatry. His painting lines are very masculine and sharp (you could cut yourself on most of these women) and the only thing that relates to the sax are the colors, especially the rich golds. Yes, the complexity of the paintings work with the complexity of Bach... Bach may have been talking to God, but Klimt is talking to women, which may be his God.
Oh, I love that analysis. What incredible fun.
Klimt, to me, is the merging of the old and new. His portrait work is as classical as it comes, just wrapped in the new mantle of design. That’s the match to the Sax Bach. The combination of old and new.
I desperately need to find some modernized classical pieces, but since I’m in the middle of a project now, I’m lazy about looking for something to order from Amazon. I have this vague memory that I used to have a vinyl of PDQ Bach, but when I tried to find something usable on YouTube, nothing had that clever playful updating that I thought I remembered.
As for the women - absolutely rich, though an interesting mix of also innocent young children. He seems to focus on the sexuality producing the children that are cherished. Not what I remember from Freud, who concentrated on sex for sex’s sake. Klimt is certainly talking to THIS woman. I love the sensuality. My favorites are the two Water Serpent paintings.