1900 at The National Gallery, London Oct 9-Jan 12th.
A major exhibition for the National Gallery including paintings from Klimt and Schiele. I cannot wait. The last time I saw an exhibition of these artists all togeter was when I was on a school trip. It was to see an Impressionist exhibition. It was so busy you couldn't get near the paitings to see them. Also with impressionist paitnings your really need to stand back. Not possible at all at this time. My friend and I got so fed up we went to explore the rest of the gallery and found a Klimt and schiele exhibition on with no many people in it!! I was in love. AMAZING pictures. Some surprisingly large and quite overwhelming. Two different styles but superb technicians and a belief in their unique visions. I have been a fan ever since and an't wait to go and see this. Don't miss it if you can.
Description
During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society
celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects' shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to the end of World War I. This is viewed as a time when
the avant-garde overthrew the academy, yet Facing the Modern tells a more
complex story, through thought-provoking texts by leading art historians. The exhibition examine paintings by innovative artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele alongside most of their predecessors, blurring the conventionally-held distinctions between 19th-century and early-20th-century
art, and revealing surprising continuities in the production and consumption of
portraits.
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