Introduction

Gustav Klimt, one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, was an Austrian symbolist painter known for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.

Jurisprudence: A Sculpture in the Art Nouveau Style

Jurisprudence is one of Klimt's most famous paintings, which he completed in 1907. This painting is a sculpture in the Art Nouveau style, which was an international philosophy, style of art, architecture and especially the decorative arts, after Czech artist Alphonse Mucha designed a poster with Art Nouveau design that appeared in the streets of Paris in 1895. Artists fully grabbed the chance to react against the tired academic art of the 19th century and went back to the natural forms of flowers, plants and curved lines to make distinctive and very attractive decorative designs.

Klimt's Life-long Adoration of the Female Form

This painting shows clearly Klimt’s life-long adoration of the female form that he was in the process of flattening onto the same even plane as the decorative background, turning into another lovely body into just another design shape, in the same way as happened in the Japanese prints that inspired European Art Nouveau artists.

Conclusion

Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele and has been one of the artists whose paintings fetch top prices at auctions since the 1990s. At ArtsDot.com, we offer high-quality hand-made oil painting reproductions of Klimt's masterpieces, including Jurisprudence, that you can hang on your walls and enjoy anytime.

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