Garden of Earthly Delights Critique

Although we know little about his life, Bosch was one of the most renowned painters of his time. The profuse, and now often obscure, symbolism of his works derived, it is thought, from folklore, literary metaphors and proverbs familiar enough to educate contemporaries, who could thus interpret his moral allegories. Even for us, the fact that this central panel is flanked on the left by the Garden of Eden and, on the right, by Hell, make it obvious that the moralizing artist thought about the pleasures of sex, and sensuality here portrayed. (World Art Teasures-Geoffrey Hindley)

Critique of Stealing Saturn

Stealing Saturn
By Kathy Klimt

"Stealing Saturn" is Kathy’s first oil painting. She painted it for her husband Gustav Klimt. It was said that she wanted her fantasy of artwork of exotic women to be full of energy and determination. She went to foreign lands to search the meaning of exotic because she wanted to be able to show every possible outlook of exotic women. A lot of inspiration for Kathy was music. She describes music as her way to posses and relinquishes emotions. She studied music’s such as Enigma, Dead Can Dance, and works from Loreena McKennitt.

"Stealing Saturn" was painted using oils. The focal point of the painting is the woman’s arm and face. All the colors converge and intertwine showing the true tone of her skin and clothes. The field behind the character showed the black hole outside of the woman’s emotion. She solely fixed on her quest to, in fact, steal Saturn. In this horizontal composition, the viewer’s eyes move within the proximity of the top of the painting, then move from right to left. Kathy emphasizes the face and the arms nesting the planet close to her chest. This truly is a piece of artwork that deserves further investigation and proper analyzing.