Love

I spent a very enjoyable two hours at the Vienna On The Path To Modernism exhibition in Osaka this afternoon. Silly me forgot to put the memory card in the camera, so this is a photograph of a postcard I bought of one of the Gustav Klimt paintings on display there. It's full title is Love Study for a Template from Allegories: New Series, No.46. Considered an early version of The Kiss, this beautiful painting shows the strong influence that Japanese art had on Klimt's style, and also how the Vienna Secession was radically breaking free from traditional styles of art (here, the hopeful innocence of young love is shadowed by dark images of foreboding in the background.)

Thankfully, there were no "pornographic" Egon Schiele works on display, just one very graphic Klimt sketch which could easily be overlooked, so there is no reason why I should not bring my Year Four class here in a few weeks' time as part of their Pictures, Paintings and Photographs I.P.C. unit. In the words of another famous Austrian, "I'll be back!"

Inevitable, wasn't it?