Computer Animation Arts

In a way, we're all a bit immune to Klimt - maybe because we've seen his work reproduced too often on tablemats and as fridge magnets and on coffee mugs - but just look at these images. There's something stark and vampiric about Klimt's women - an iciness and siren's intent. But really, it's the texturing that encourages me to showcase him here. Feast your eyes! " Gustav Klimt first made himself known by the decorations he executed… for numerous theatres and above all … for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he completed, in a coolly photographic style, the work begun by Makart . At the age of thirty he moved into his own studio and turned to easel painting. At thirty-five he was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession ; he withdrew eight years later, dismayed by the increasingly strong trend towards naturalism . The coruscating sensuality of Klimt's work might seem in perfect accord with a society which recognized itself in thos...