On Lake Attersee
1900
One of Vienna's foremost Symbolist painters active from the late 19th to early 2…
Light and the shadows of clouds reflected on gently rippling waves. The lake surface, scattered with countless planes of color, as if a mosaic.
A bold yet serene landscape painting, deliberately excluding the sky and surrounding scenery, capturing only the expressions of the water's surface onto a square canvas.
Yet, at the time this painting was created in 1900, the artist Klimt was in the midst of a storm of intense criticism.
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