Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making.NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA National Gallery of Canada National art museum founded in Ottawa in 1880. Its holdings include extensive collections of Canadian art as well as important European works. Its nucleus was formed with the donation of diploma works by members of the Royal Canadian Academy. All that glitters All That Glitters (shortened from "All that glitters is not gold", a famous misquotation from The Merchant of Venice, the original line being ) is the name of a number of different works:
superego In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, one of the three aspects of the human personality, along with the id and the ego. and id. Portraits of the rich and glamorous alternate with ruminations on the mysteries of love, sex, and death. Mixing decorative motifs from Mycenae to Byzantium, Klimt makes his imperious im·pe·ri·ous adj. 1. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing. See Synonyms at dictatorial. 2. Urgent; pressing. 3. Obsolete Regal; imperial. female sitters look like reincarnations of the Empress Theodora and, in a work like Hope, 1903, can even transform a nine-months-pregnant teen into a femme fatale. June 15-Sept. 16. |
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