Flowering Poppies by Gustav Klimt, 1907 Size:50x50in (127x127cm) creating a lively rhythm

creating a lively rhythm

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and soft whites—echoing shafts of light that break through turbulent clouds

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Flowering Poppies by Gustav Klimt, 1907 Size:50x50in (127x127cm) creating a lively rhythmGustav Klimts Flowering Poppies (1907) is a radiant meditation on nature from the leading light of the Vienna Secession. Painted during his summer sojourns near Lake Attersee, the work compresses a meadows exuberance into a square field of near allover pattern: a sea of red poppies afloat on dense, shimmering greens, capped only by a narrow band of distant blue sky. Klimt merges close observation with a decorative sensibility, layering small, mosaic