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The Best Wall Art Gifts for Travel Lovers (That They'll Actually Hang)

The Best Wall Art Gifts for Travel Lovers (That...

Jasmine Okoro

Buying art for someone else is hard. Buying travel art for someone else, when you don't know their wall colours or whether they prefer Lisbon to Lyon, feels borderline reckless....

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Room by Room: Where Travel Wall Art Works Hardest in Your Home

Room by Room: Where Travel Wall Art Works Harde...

Jasmine Okoro

Travel prints get treated like holiday souvenirs when they should be treated like art. Hung at the wrong size, in the wrong frame, in the wrong room, even the most...

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Vintage Travel Posters: A Short History and How to Style Them at Home

Vintage Travel Posters: A Short History and How...

Miles Tanaka

Vintage travel posters are having a proper moment again, and not in the ironic, dorm-room way they did in 2008. Sophisticated interiors are pulling them back in, framed properly, hung...

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Why Klimt Painted Forests: The Story Behind His Landscape Period

Why Klimt Painted Forests: The Story Behind His...

Clara Bell

The Vienna scandals that made Klimt crave the countryside By 1900, Gustav Klimt was the most talked-about painter in Vienna for reasons he had not chosen. He had been commissioned...

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Who Did Klimt Actually Paint? The Real People in His Most Famous Portraits

Who Did Klimt Actually Paint? The Real People i...

Clara Bell

Gustav Klimt painted some of the most recognisable women in art, but most people couldn't name a single one of them. The faces draped in gold and pattern were real...

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Klimt's Beech Forest and Birch Forest Paintings: A Buyer's Guide to His Best Tree Art

Klimt's Beech Forest and Birch Forest Paintings...

Jasmine Okoro

Klimt's forests are having a moment, and the search results are a mess. People type in "beech forest poster" and end up looking at three different paintings with overlapping German...

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The Story Behind Klimt's Woman in Gold: Adele Bloch-Bauer and Why She Still Captivates

The Story Behind Klimt's Woman in Gold: Adele B...

Miles Tanaka

She has been called the Mona Lisa of Austria, looted by Nazis, fought over in court for decades, and sold for $135 million. The painting is dazzling, but the woman...

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Klimt's Golden Phase Portraits: The Story Behind the Gold

Klimt's Golden Phase Portraits: The Story Behin...

Clara Bell

Gustav Klimt's Golden Phase lasted less than a decade, but it produced the most recognisable portraits in modern art. Before you hang one on your wall, it's worth knowing what...

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Klimt's Gold Phase: The Story Behind the Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

Klimt's Gold Phase: The Story Behind the Most E...

Jasmine Okoro

In 2006, a single painting sold for $135 million. It was a portrait of a Viennese socialite, painted with real gold leaf, that had spent decades hanging in a stolen...

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Every Klimt Garden Painting Worth Knowing (and Hanging on Your Wall)

Every Klimt Garden Painting Worth Knowing (and ...

Jasmine Okoro

Most people know Klimt for the gold leaf and the kiss. But spend a summer at Lake Attersee, as he did almost every year from 1900 onwards, and you'd come...

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Klimt Landscape Prints: Classic or Contemporary Styling?

Klimt Landscape Prints: Classic or Contemporary...

Miles Tanaka

Gustav Klimt is famous for gold leaf and gilded portraits, but his landscapes are the quieter, weirder, more wearable half of his output. Painted mostly during summers at Lake Attersee...

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Beyond the Tree of Life: Klimt's Most Beautiful Tree Paintings

Beyond the Tree of Life: Klimt's Most Beautiful...

Clara Bell

You've seen the Tree of Life everywhere. Spiralled gold branches, swirling roots, the whole thing reproduced on cushions, mugs and yoga mats. But Klimt painted dozens of actual trees, and...

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The Klimt Tree of Life: What It Means and Where to Hang It

The Klimt Tree of Life: What It Means and Where...

Miles Tanaka

Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life is one of the most reproduced artworks ever made, and one of the most misunderstood. Most articles explain what the spiralling branches mean, then leave...

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Klimt at the Lake: The Landscapes That Changed How We See Nature Art

Klimt at the Lake: The Landscapes That Changed ...

Miles Tanaka

The other side of Klimt: from gold portraits to green forests Most people know one Klimt. Gold leaf, embracing couples, a certain art history poster that has hung in roughly...

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Matisse vs. Klimt: Two Masters of Pattern and Which One Suits Your Space

Matisse vs. Klimt: Two Masters of Pattern and W...

Jasmine Okoro

Both Matisse and Klimt built their reputations on pattern, but they pulled in opposite directions. One stripped colour and shape back to their happiest essentials. The other piled on gold...

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Every Flower Klimt Painted: The Complete Guide to His Floral Masterpieces

Every Flower Klimt Painted: The Complete Guide ...

Jasmine Okoro

Klimt Beyond The Kiss: Why His Flower Paintings Deserve Your Attention Ask anyone to name a Klimt painting and you'll get The Kiss, maybe Adele Bloch-Bauer. What you almost never...

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Gustav Klimt's Most Famous Paintings: What Makes Each One Worth Your Wall

Gustav Klimt's Most Famous Paintings: What Make...

Miles Tanaka

Klimt painted more than you think, and most people only ever see one of them. This guide walks through the works that genuinely deserve wall space, what they actually feel...

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Klimt's Women Decoded: The Hidden Symbolism in His Most Famous Female Portraits

Klimt's Women Decoded: The Hidden Symbolism in ...

Jasmine Okoro

"I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women." Gustav Klimt said this near the end of his life,...

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Framed Klimt Prints: Museum Style or Modern Home? Your Guide

Framed Klimt Prints: Museum Style or Modern Hom...

Miles Tanaka

Klimt is one of the most reproduced artists in the world, which means most attempts to hang him at home end up looking either touristy or oddly juvenile. The fix...

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Klimt's Paintings of Women: A Complete Guide to His Most Celebrated Female Portraits

Klimt's Paintings of Women: A Complete Guide to...

Jasmine Okoro

Gustav Klimt painted around 230 works in his lifetime, and the overwhelming majority depict women. Not as objects, not as decoration, but as the central intellectual and emotional subject of...

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