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JOANNE SHORT
Original Oil Paintings
New paintings available to buy online now by Cornwall's acclaimed colourist painter.
TED DYER
Original Oil Paintings
New paintings available to buy online by Cornwall's best known impressionist artist.
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Christmas Exhibition St Ives 2024
Private View: 6th December 6pm to 8pm
Exhibition continues: 7th - 8th
Easter Exhibition St Ives 2024
New paintings by John Dyer & Joanne Short in the historic Porthmeor Studios in St Ives.
St Ives Crypt Gallery 2023
Exhibition of paintings at the historic St Ives Society of Artists' Crypt Gallery.
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Spirit of the Rainforest with the Yawanawá Tribe. Explore the Amazon with artist John Dyer & Musician Martha-Lilly Dyer.
Person of the Forest with the Penan Tribe. Explore Borneo & orangutans with artist John Dyer & Musician Martha-Lilly Dyer.
Precious Africa with the Maasai Tribe. Explore Kenya with artists John Dyer & Joanne Short.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was a leading Symbolist painter from Austria and a prominent figure in the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt was the second of seven children born in Baumgarten, near Vienna. His father, Ernst Klimt, was a gold engraver, and his mother, Anna Finster, aspired to be a musical performer. Klimt showed artistic talent early and, at the age of 14, enrolled in the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (University of Applied Arts Vienna), where he studied architectural painting.
Klimt began his career with his brothers and friend Franz Matsch, forming the "Company of Artists," which received commissions for public murals. In 1888, Klimt was awarded the Golden Order of Merit by Emperor Franz Josef I for his work on the murals in the Vienna Burgtheater. However, the deaths of his father and brother Ernst in 1892 profoundly impacted his life and art, leading him to develop a more personal and symbolic style.
In 1897, Klimt co-founded the Vienna Secession, a group that broke away from the traditional Vienna Artists' Association to promote artistic freedom and exhibit unconventional art. Klimt became the first president of the Secession, advocating for creative innovation and the inclusion of international artists in Viennese exhibitions. One of his notable works from this period is the "Beethoven Frieze," created for the group's 14th exhibition in 1902.
Klimt's "Golden Phase," which began around 1901, brought him critical and financial success. This period is characterised by the extensive use of gold leaf, influenced by Byzantine art and mosaics he saw in Venice and Ravenna. Masterpieces from this phase include "The Kiss" (1907-1908) and "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" (1907), which are celebrated for their decorative richness and symbolic content.
Klimt's works often featured the female body and were marked by their eroticism and symbolism. His controversial murals for the University of Vienna, criticized for their explicit content, led him to withdraw from public commissions. Despite this, Klimt continued to explore themes of desire, dreams, and human emotion through his lush, symbol-laden paintings.
Klimt's personal life was unconventional. He maintained a lifelong relationship with fashion designer Emilie Louise Flöge and fathered at least fourteen children with various women. He preferred a reclusive lifestyle, focusing intensely on his art until he died in 1918.
Today, Klimt's legacy endures through his pioneering contributions to modern art, his role in the Vienna Secession, and his stunning, innovative works that continue to captivate audiences worldwide.
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