Trendy Man: Mr. Melon! Your wife was just showing us her Klimt.
Melon: You too, huh? She’s showin’ it to everybody.
Trendy Man: Well, she’s very proud of it.
Melon: I’m proud of mine too. I don’t go waving it around at parties, though.
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It’s great to see so much of the early work, before he got to the iconic stuff. Thank you for posting!
Since someone just down-arrowed the video from here, I’m hoping that those who like it will up-arrow it.
I actually prefer his landscapes, despite being in the graphics field and appreciating his Art Nouveau mastery of stylized imagery and organic use of typography.
I’ve just realized that Michelle Obama’s official portrait is a Klimt knockoff too, by the way.
Most excellently done. Thank you. As an aside Bach’s Little Fugue in G Minor may well be the most mathematically perfect piece of music ever written and my favorite short Bach work.
wonderful, thank you!!!
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.
Wonderful! Thank you!
Thanks! I’m not a huge fan of Klimt. His work feels very uncomfortable to me. But this was a great compilation of his work. And the choice of music was great. I appreciate your work on these videos.