Status Updates From Gustav Klimt: Complete Pain...

“One contemporary critic captured this dilemma of modernity as manifested in the Secession, simulraneously embracing and retreating from the temptations of urban life and the brave new world of consumer capitalism, the dazzling acceleration of transportation and communication and the ever-changing cycle of fashions (…)”

This is referring to the 1890s… sound familiar?

painters and sculptors, including Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-
1898), Walter Crane (1845-1915), Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), Max Liebermann (1847-
1935). Constantin Meunier (1831-1905), Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899), Franz von Stuck (1863-1928) and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

Julius Victor Berger;
English avant-garde: Dante Gabriel Rossetti;
Belgium symbolism: Fernand Khnopff;

Vienna Secession (art movement)

There are so many artists being mentioned that are included as Klmit’s references and inspirations which I am only know learning about.
Artists such as: Hans Makart, Sir Frederick Leighton, Alexandre Cabanel, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, William Adolphe Bourgereau, …

I also learnt what “lunettes” are in architecture.