Figurative Artist Research: Gustav Klimt

It is clear that the subject of choice of Gustav Klimt is the delicate frame of the feminine figure where he makes it his goal to show their beauty in all of it’s splendour. The way he paints the pale and fresh skin tone with rosy cheeks and face with no disturbance from shade almost gives his subjects a doll like look. Helped also by the extravagant clothing which is defined more by colours than form and the coifed or flowing hair. The anatomy he creates isn’t always hundred percent accurate which I noticed more on the second piece where the fingers looked slightly long and alien, but I feel his goal with the anatomy is to show of the curvaceous and flowing forms of the female body without too much worry about precision.