{"id":893,"date":"2012-01-11T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=893"},"modified":"2012-01-11T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:51:48","slug":"klimt-shapes-rhythm-and-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Klimt (Shapes, Rhythm and Structure)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_894\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gustav_Klimt-Apple-Tree-II-1916-80-x-80-cm-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-894\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-894\" title=\"Gustav_Klimt - Apple Tree II - 1916 - 80 x 80 cm - reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gustav_Klimt-Apple-Tree-II-1916-80-x-80-cm-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"931\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gustav_Klimt-Apple-Tree-II-1916-80-x-80-cm-reduced.jpg 931w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gustav_Klimt-Apple-Tree-II-1916-80-x-80-cm-reduced-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustav Klimt -Apple Tree II - 1916 - 80 x 80 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gustav Klimt was a master of shapes and structure and as we see in this late painting, he was a great master of the reductive process.<\/p>\n<p>We see this is his late painting Apple Tree II, a wonderful example of the power of shapes.\u00a0 We respond to the beautiful shape of the tree, then we take in the dance of the circles , particularly the wonderful pauses of the red circles, in fact, note how one red circle is actually the focus.\u00a0 The rhythm of the trees on the horizon is wonderful and I hope you feel the dance.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating that information for the sake of information can disrupt a composition is very important. Shape and pattern within the shape, works much better, as we see in the tree and the triangle shape of the foreground.<\/p>\n<p>There is very sophisticated structural consideration in this painting, which I feel is one of the finest I have ever had the pleasure of engaging with.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the vertical at the bottom right, which not only provides a lovely visual support for the trunk, but also provides one of the best spatial planes I have ever seen!\u00a0 Do you see the horizontal at the top of the vertical line, forming a right angle and how the feeling of a spatial plane comes forth?\u00a0 Magnificent!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav Klimt was a master of shapes and structure and as we see in this late painting, he was a great master of the reductive process. We see this is his late painting Apple Tree II, a wonderful example of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,4,5,7,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}