Similarity of my BOW to Klimt Landscapes

When international artist and curator, Linda Ingham, gave me feedback on my body of work as part of SYP assignment 1, she mentioned that my work reminded my of Klimt landscapes.  Although familiar with Klimt's work (I have a silk tie with The Kiss on it) I was unaware that he had painted landscapes.  Having googled the subject I came up with a whole range of his work such as the ones shown below.

These immediately reminded me of the following photograph, the final one in my series.

I also have others in a similar vein taken more recently as part of the development of my project.

The second of the Klimt paintings is called Forest/1901 and is on display in The Tate.  The Tate website tells us that while his landscape work dates from the 1880s, it was not until the late1890s  that he turned consistently to landscape painting whilst on holiday near the city of Salzburg. After the early 1900s when he had given up large public commissions and he relied on selling his work, the website tells us that these landscapes proved useful.

His landscapes are now highly sought after and I was interested to read that a particular feature of the paintings is their standard size and square format which he used with exhibition in mind.  I was particularly taken when I read this as, as can be seen in the images above, I have chosen a square format with no horizon.  This is largely for uniformity but also to remove myself somewhat from the romantic picturesque.  I favour the lack of horizon to encourage the viewer to look more closely at the image as it is more difficult to place it as a landscape.  As Joseph Wright says of Matthew Conduit's work in the Inside the Outside website: "All peripheral information and most references to topography are discarded.  There are no skies or horizons and few focal points - in cases no 'landscape'."

Tate (2017, Gustav Klimt:Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900:Room Guide, Gustav Klimt and Landscape [online] 

available from: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/gustav-klimt-painting-design-and-modern-life-vienna-1900/gustav-8 [accessed 29.12.17]

Wright, J (2017) Chora and Terrain Vague/Matthew Conduit  Inside the Outside Website, Available from: http://www.inside-the-outside.com/chora-terrain-vague-matthew-conduit/ [Accessed 29.12.17]