The Glasgow Four & Viennese Secession

The Glasgow Four & Viennese Secession

Gustav Klimt,Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi c.1913–14

Private collection

The Glasgow Four formed and informal  creative alliance. Their art covered controversial graphics and decorative art design. The artwork was stylized by using a geometric style of composition. It had strong rectilinear structure, lyrical originality and symbolic complexity. De-saturated  colour palette. The Vienna Secession was a rebellion against the traditional art of their forebears. The secessionists also incorporated janponisme. The artwork had a balance between negative and positive space. The design language used squares, rectangles, and circles in repetition and combination. There was subtle organic forms. Subjects were abstracted. The secessionists went toward  flat shapes and  greater simplicity. Gustav Klimt, a secessionist that's artwork used a lot of repetitive shapes , which made it abstract. He merged ornamentation with applied art. Klimt also used a lot of gold in his work.

Josef Hoffman, 2014

The lamp uses a lot of organic forms and there is a lot of repetition of pattern. The patterns in the are not realistic and takes the form of geometric shapes.

Charne Ivasen.

Bibliography

 Fischer, W. G. & McEwan, D., 1992. Vienna Secession. Gustav Klimt & Emilie Flöge, an artist and his muse.