you know, re: the overexposed klimt society portraits that everyone is tired of, if you ignore the faces and other anthromorphic bits and just focus on like the clothes and the background textures there are a lot of similarities to klee!
― the late great, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gustav_Klimt_046.jpg
like enlarge that picture so you can only see the lower half of it and it doesn't look so different from klee!
― the late great, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
oh I think some of his nature studies show he was more than just a stylist and even his more decorative/embellished stuff is actually quite loose and not as intensively overworked as it maybe looks at postcard scale.
― calzino, Friday, 11 January 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link