Featured Image The Maiden - Klimt

Kilmt used collage or the idea of collage to create 'emotionscapes' of the richest dimension. His work is a brilliant example for students of Digital Muraling to follow.

The marriage of sensitive and brilliantly executed images of women into ‘panoramic scapes’ of pattern, colour and texture create a multi-dimensional imagery of the richest and kaleidoscope kind.

Kilmt's images and creations provide the digital arts teacher with a cohesive example of how to use Digital Photography, scanning and computer generated imagery in Photoshop, Painter or other digital packages. His style is to create a world of blended poetic representations creating composites and compositions from them.

If you look closely at The Maiden 1912 - 13 you will see at least five women woven through the field of flowers and flowing patterns colour.

Landscapes like After the Rain, 1899 show that the ability to render perspective as relevant and useful for the figurative and spatially oriented artist and graphic artist alike.

Both of these classics can be sent by email from this site called Kilmt Expo Shop.com

Lesson Suggestions

Peer Assessment Idea.

• Ask the students to send an email card to a friend or peer assessor outlining what they appreciate about the painting selected.
• Perhaps the students could edit the email cards message as a literacy booster. Ask the students to edit each other’s short essay style statement about of the card and send it back with comments
• In an Appreciative Inquiry, you might ask the students

1. What does the marrying of images suggest to you?
2. What emotions does viewing this work evoke for you?
3. The students might dialogue in “Think Pair Share” style about the compositional qualities and lyricism of the artwork.
4. Invite them to visit each of the seven elements of design together.
5. The students might be asked to express their interpretation of the meaning of the work
6. Alternatively, if they find the idea of interpretation interferes with their enjoyment of the work they could describe its gentle suggestive aura

In a more private and contemplative setting create a context for personal response.

1. Invite the students to write a poetic response to the piece
2. Invite them to find or write a piece of music that reflects the theme
3. Invite the students to create their own inspired composition by digitally combining elements of the design. To do this they may want to use

• Digital photos composed on the computer
• Scanned photos composed in the same manner
• Print photos torn or cut and paste
• Life drawings from Life Drawing Class (so as not to harm these precious drawings the students may want to arrange their work in layers or shoot them seperately and combine in Photshop)
• Real flowers could be composed around photos and drawings which are digitally photographed so that the overall impression was mergence/emergence

History Lesson Ideas

“Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do." Kilmt

Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna, Austria 1862 and died of a stroke 1918

His compositions speaks eloquently about the attraction of the sexes.

• Ask the students to write a short piece about what they think his ideas about women may have been
• Ask the students to depict one event from his lifetime line in any medium or combinations of mediums that they choose