Music
by KLIMT, Gustav, Oil and gold-bronze on canvas, 28 x 36 cm
In this painting, Klimt creates an “ideal plane” which asserts itself in opposition to the modelling of the body. In his works, gold and silver grounds stand alongside zones of oil painting. To a certain extent, Klimt here anticipates the collage employed, for example, by Antoni Gaudi in his architecture. The subtle, “textile” quality which Klimt so magically lends the pictorial plane has never been equalled.