A Lecture Over a Glass of Wine: Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt
The son of a gold engraver who brought gold into his paintings, reshaping human anatomy with jeweler-like precision into mesmerizing — and at times unsettling — forms.
Sensual without being vulgar, and distorted beauty standing side by side with his classically "correct" academic portraits.
A realist, surrealist, modernist, symbolist... Who was Gustav Klimt? All of the above — and more.

You will learn:
What Klimt had in common with the Russian Peredvizhniki, and how he redefined classical painting forms
 How the public reacted to his work, which of his paintings we’ll never see in person, and why
 What inspired the Austrian master and which muses influenced him most
 Which artwork he dedicated to his critics — and why, despite scandals, his career always soared

The lecture will be given by Pasha Rost — a painter, illustrator, and graduate of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Academic Painting.