Death And Life. - Democratic Underground

NNadir

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Thu Jan-14-10 07:55 PM
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Death And Life.

Gustav Klimt, Austrian (1862 - 1918)

1911

At the Leopold Museum, Vienna Austria.

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Thu Jan-14-10 08:12 PM
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1. My dear NNadir...

Ah, this is wonderful!

Death looks so awful, so creepy, so macabre!

And the alive people? Juicy, full of life, and love, and everything good!

Gustav Klimt is one of my favorite painters...

Thank you for posting this!

:hi:

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NNadir

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Thu Jan-14-10 08:19 PM
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3. Klimt is one of my favorites too. Peg. He was one of the most plundered artists

in the Second World War, and regrettably, some of his paintings were destroyed in bombings.

War is always a tragic thing of course, but the loss to our cultural history makes it all the worst.

The Neue Museum in New York was built by Ronald Lauder around Klimt and art stolen by the Nazis and returned to humanity.

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Mari333

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Thu Jan-14-10 08:17 PM
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2. beautiful painting but I think he has it backwards.

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MilesColtrane

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Thu Jan-14-10 09:53 PM
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4. "Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt."

"You too, huh? She’s showin’ it to everybody."

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Dystopian

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Thu Jan-14-10 10:02 PM
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5. Very intense...

To me...They are one and the same...
Sweet portrayal ...

peace~

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XemaSab

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Thu Jan-14-10 10:10 PM
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6. All find safety in the tomb

n/t

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NNadir

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Thu Jan-14-10 10:56 PM
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7. I'd wager that if you asked someone in a tomb to venture an opinion on this point,

there's a very strong possibility that they would remain silent and offer no opinion on the matter.

Unquestionably all of the models in this painting, with the possible exception of the baby now have found this "safety" such as it is.

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XemaSab

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Thu Jan-14-10 11:01 PM
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8. It's a fact

Only one thing in life is 100% certain.

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