Question 1

Do Crimson, Purple and Rose work together?

Accepted Answer

Yes — most Art-Nouveau-decorative Klimt split-complementary: Purple rich medium Byzantine-ornamental and Rose vivid electric gold-leaf-illuminated are the most specifically Klimt-Secessionist and the most immediately Art-Nouveau-decorative cool-warm pair, Crimson passionate Der-Kuss-painting the most romantically charged warm. Vienna Secession: Crimson Kiss passionate, Purple ornament rich medium, Rose gold-leaf vivid electric.

Question 2

What was the Vienna Secession and its significance?

Accepted Answer

The Vienna Secession (Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs — Secession — 'Association of Austrian Visual Artists — Secession' — founded April 3, 1897 — the most immediately anti-academic and the most comprehensively avant-garde art movement in the history of Viennese culture — founded by 19 Austrian visual artists including Gustav Klimt as the most immediately prominent and the most artistically compelling of the founding members — alongside the architect Josef Hoffmann, the designer Koloman Moser, and the architect Joseph Maria Olbrich) was the most comprehensively 'Gesamtkunstwerk' — total art work — oriented movement in fin-de-siècle Central European art: combining the most immediately innovative approaches to painting (Klimt), architecture (Olbrich, Hoffmann), and decorative arts (Moser) in the most completely unified and the most immediately recognizable aesthetic programme of any European art movement of the 1890s-1910s. The Secession Building: the most immediately characteristic and the most architecturally specific creation of the Vienna Secession — the Secession Building (designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich — 1898 CE — Vienna — the most immediately distinctive and the most visually recognizable exhibition building of the fin-de-siècle Vienna art scene — famous for the most specifically spherical golden filigree dome — the 'golden cabbage' as Viennese slang has always affectionately called it) is the most immediately architecturally specific monument of the Vienna Secession and the most comprehensively Gesamtkunstwerk-oriented exhibition space of any art movement of the 1890s. The Beethoven Frieze: the most immediately important single work created for the Secession Building — Klimt's Beethoven Frieze (1902 CE — still permanently displayed in the basement of the Secession Building — the most immediately impressive and the most extensively Byzantine-influenced of all the Klimt large-format works — now one of the most important permanent art historical documents of the Vienna Secession period).

Question 3

What is the Gesamtkunstwerk concept and its Viennese expression?

Accepted Answer

The Gesamtkunstwerk (German: Gesamtkunstwerk — 'total work of art' — from German: gesamt — 'total/complete' + Kunst — 'art' + Werk — 'work' — the aesthetic concept of the most comprehensively unified work of art incorporating the most diverse artistic media — music, poetry, architecture, painting, dance, and applied arts — into the most immediately unified and the most completely coherent single artistic experience — first theorized most comprehensively by Richard Wagner in his most important operatic and aesthetic writings: 'The Artwork of the Future' — 1849 CE — 'Opera and Drama' — 1851 CE) found its most immediately impressive architectural and decorative expression in the Vienna Secession and the closely associated Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops — founded 1903 CE by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann — the most immediately comprehensive and the most directly Gesamtkunstwerk-oriented design workshop of the early 20th century — producing the most consistently unified and the most immediately recognizable of all Art Nouveau applied art objects — from the most precisely designed furniture and silverware through the most carefully considered textile and wallpaper designs to the most comprehensively coordinated interior design programmes). The Stoclet Palace: the most immediately impressive surviving example of the Gesamtkunstwerk concept in architecture — the Palais Stoclet (Brussels — designed by Josef Hoffmann — 1905-1911 CE — with the most important interior decorations by Gustav Klimt — including the Stoclet Frieze — the most immediately impressive and the most extensively gold-leaf-covered of all the Klimt decorative works — consisting of approximately 100 m² of gold-covered marble mosaic panels — the most technically demanding and the most immediately beautiful of all the Klimt-designed applied art works — UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009 — the most immediately impressive private house on the UNESCO Heritage list in Brussels).

Question 4

What is gold leaf application in painting?

Accepted Answer

Gold leaf application in painting (the most precisely demanding and the most immediately visually impressive technique in Western and Eastern painting traditions alike — used from the most ancient Egyptian and the most important Byzantine icon painting traditions through the most contemporary fine art applications) involves: (1) Preparation (the most carefully prepared painting surface — specifically: the oil paint layer must be in the most precisely 'open' — still-tacky — drying state when the gold leaf is applied — the most critical timing factor in the entire gold leaf technique — typically requiring the most accurately sized gold-size adhesive — oil-based or water-based — applied 12-24 hours before the gold leaf to achieve the most correct tack); (2) The leaf (gold leaf — the most precisely hammered gold alloy — from 22-24 carat pure gold for the most intensely warm and the most immediately brilliant surfaces — to 18-carat alloy for the most characteristic greenish 'white gold' effect — each sheet measuring approximately 80 × 80 mm and weighing approximately 1/300,000th of an ounce — the most extremely thin and the most fragile of all the applied decorative materials — requiring the most precisely controlled breath and the most specifically designed squirrel-hair gilder's brush for the most successful application); (3) Burnishing (the most immediately final and the most visually critical step — using the most precisely smooth and the most highly polished agate burnishing stone — producing the most intensely reflective and the most brilliantly warm gold surface — or leaving unburnished for the most immediately matte and the most atmospherically subtle gold effect). Klimt's gold: Klimt used the most comprehensive combination of techniques: (1) Applied gold leaf to the most precisely prepared oil-paint base; (2) Used the most specifically perforated and the most carefully textured gold leaf (creating the most characteristic pointillistic and the most immediately textile-like decorative effects in the most important Klimt ornamental areas); and (3) Combined the most specifically stamped gold ornament with the most carefully drawn oil-paint lines for the most immediately complex and the most visually rich decorative surfaces of any major European artist of the early 20th century.

Question 5

What proportion creates the most Klimt Secessionist quality?

Accepted Answer

Purple dominant (45%) as the rich medium Byzantine-ornamental Secessionist cool anchor; Rose at 30% as the vivid electric gold-leaf-glow warm-cool secondary; Crimson at 25% as the passionate Der-Kuss warm jewel. Purple's dominance creates the Klimt Secessionist quality — the rich, medium, mosaic-like purple of the most elaborately detailed Klimt ornamental background (directly referencing the most important Byzantine mosaic traditions that Klimt studied most specifically during his 1903 visit to Ravenna — the specific rich medium purple of the tesserae in the most dramatically positioned San Vitale apse mosaic being the most immediately beautiful and the most directly inspiring single Byzantine decorative element that Klimt subsequently incorporated into the most important decorative backgrounds of his 'golden period' paintings) is the single most immediately historically resonant and the most comprehensively decoratively sophisticated element of the Klimt visual vocabulary; Rose's vivid electric gold-leaf glow provides the most immediately beautiful and the most dramatically light-responsive warm-cool secondary; and Crimson's passionate Kiss painting provides the most romantically charged and the most internationally famous warm accent — the specific deep vivid crimson of the woman's robe in Der Kuss being the most immediately emotionally compelling and the most romantically specific warm color in the entire Klimt oeuvre.

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