Yesterday I scored another great art book from the Joanne Waxman Library at MECA - this book of Gustav Klimt's drawings. It was $3 on their used books shelf! As I've stated here before, I have amassed quite a nice collection of wonderful old art books for pin money from that shelf! Klimt's drawings are spare and precise, yet sensuous. They flow so beautifully...
A excerpt from the introduction by Alfred Werner:
Klimt's indisputable eroticism was healthy and simple...Klimt had no trace of the lewdness of a Bouguereau, the misogyny of a Degas or Munch, the detachment of a Toulouse-Lautrec. "Un moved by the temptations of a frivolous society," as a friend aptly characterized him, Klimt lived mainly for the pursuit of art, looking at a woman with interest rather than passion.
5 comments:
Three dollars....amazing! These lovely drawings make my pen itch to draw more often...
scrath that itch, girl! even if you have to carry a little book in your pocket and draw on the subway!
scratch!!!! (i do know how to spell - i just can't type!!!)
That's a great 3 buck book! I'm envious.
drool away!
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