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.