The woman in gold

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 Today I will talk about my favorite painter, Gustav Klimt, he is a austrian artist that lived between 1869 and 1918, but specifically to the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also called the woman in gold. The portrait is the final and most fully representative work of Klimt's golden phase. It was the first of two depictions of Adele by Klimt

The first time I saw a Klimt´s painting was at the school, it was his famous work "The Kiss", I was surprised with the style of the artist because is very original, He found in the female body one of his most recurrent sources of inspiration. His works are endowed with an intense sensual energy even criticized as pornographic.

That I like most about painting is its history, Adele was the only woman that was portrayed twice by the painter, she died in 1925 and left in his will that work was part of the Belvedere museum but with the entrance of the Nazis to Austria these took possession of the painting by being a Jewish family. In 2006 the painting was returned to the family, and at present it is considered as the austrian Mona Lisa.