Farmhouse in Upper Austria by Gustav Klimt Maira Ribena demonstrating that Klimt's decorative instinct

demonstrating that Klimt's decorative instinct was equally at home in the natural world as in the studio

Archival pigment inks and the warmth of the canvas surface give Hu's final chapter the depth and presence it deserves

Costa orchestrates form

Working in the spirit of 19th-century zoological illustration

aged sepia tones that speak directly to the 19th-century archive

Farmhouse in Upper Austria by Gustav Klimt Maira Ribena demonstrating that Klimt's decorative instinctFarmhouse in Upper Austria belongs to the series of summer landscapes Klimt painted away from Vienna quiet, frontal, almost meditative. The farmhouse sits flush with the picture plane, surrounded by a dense pattern of foliage that dissolves architecture into nature. There is no drama, no narrative: only the steady, absorbing attention of a painter finding freedom in the rural and the ordinary, rendered in his signature mosaic like touch. As a canvas