Ornament plays a significant role from the beginning of human art history to now days perhaps to our future as well as we cannot deny its contribution as an aesthetic element to our daily life. We can find ornament through arts of primitive culture that shows how indigenous people tattoo on their skin, homes, caves stone etc.
We will deal with the ornament, as a evident from the title itself. The importace of using the ornament in the artistic creation is evident especially in the era of Art Nouveau, questioning about feminity as well as the comparision between the opinion on erotic art of Adolf Loos and works of Gustav Klimt .To a large extent, this work can be seen as a defense ornament and reversal of the thesis by Adolf Loos, who claims …show more content…
The publications on the ornament, including examples of patterns and the design of European and Oriental art, have significantly influenced further developments in the field of decorative art and architecture. Carol A. Hrvol Flores is also returning to this important question about ornament in Owen Jones's design, ornament, architecture, and theory in an age in transition (2006), which compares the impact on the next generation of artists, designers and architects who, and especially inspired by The Grammar of Ornament of Owen Jones …show more content…
Otherwise, it was not even Gustav Klimt, who formed freely and at his discretion in the seclusion of his own studio. Klimt painted a woman's order, mostly from a higher society, which usually wrapped in flowing dresses with ornamental elements. These women often have significant jewelery, hats or furs as accessories. “But these supplements only increase the erotic emancipation of women, they bring them into the picture.” (Néret, G., p.8). Almost all Klimt women act innocently, but on the other hand even a very confident and erotic impression. Most likely, it's his intention, trying to point it out the superiority of a woman over a man. At the same time, it emphasizes the fragility of the female body and, on the contrary, highlights the spiritual power of the woman. If a man appears in Klimt's paintings, it is primarily to create a contrast between them and to support the power of a woman.
Female body as a motive “Every art is erotic“ one of the sentences of Adolf Loss who appeared in his critical article Ornament and Crime published in 1908. Loos criticizes the ornament and everything connected with it and hence the erotic paintings of women. “If there is an artist whose“ all art is really erotic, “then it is Gustav Klimt.“ (Néret, G., p.83).
Loos's claim to erotic art was to some extent directed just on Klimt. “Klimt makes fun of this Savonarol art - he answers with his Self-portrait with genitals, which is actually a cartoon in form of confession. “ (Néret, G.,
We will deal with the ornament, as a evident from the title itself. The importace of using the ornament in the artistic creation is evident especially in the era of Art Nouveau, questioning about feminity as well as the comparision between the opinion on erotic art of Adolf Loos and works of Gustav Klimt .To a large extent, this work can be seen as a defense ornament and reversal of the thesis by Adolf Loos, who claims …show more content…
The publications on the ornament, including examples of patterns and the design of European and Oriental art, have significantly influenced further developments in the field of decorative art and architecture. Carol A. Hrvol Flores is also returning to this important question about ornament in Owen Jones's design, ornament, architecture, and theory in an age in transition (2006), which compares the impact on the next generation of artists, designers and architects who, and especially inspired by The Grammar of Ornament of Owen Jones …show more content…
Otherwise, it was not even Gustav Klimt, who formed freely and at his discretion in the seclusion of his own studio. Klimt painted a woman's order, mostly from a higher society, which usually wrapped in flowing dresses with ornamental elements. These women often have significant jewelery, hats or furs as accessories. “But these supplements only increase the erotic emancipation of women, they bring them into the picture.” (Néret, G., p.8). Almost all Klimt women act innocently, but on the other hand even a very confident and erotic impression. Most likely, it's his intention, trying to point it out the superiority of a woman over a man. At the same time, it emphasizes the fragility of the female body and, on the contrary, highlights the spiritual power of the woman. If a man appears in Klimt's paintings, it is primarily to create a contrast between them and to support the power of a woman.
Female body as a motive “Every art is erotic“ one of the sentences of Adolf Loss who appeared in his critical article Ornament and Crime published in 1908. Loos criticizes the ornament and everything connected with it and hence the erotic paintings of women. “If there is an artist whose“ all art is really erotic, “then it is Gustav Klimt.“ (Néret, G., p.83).
Loos's claim to erotic art was to some extent directed just on Klimt. “Klimt makes fun of this Savonarol art - he answers with his Self-portrait with genitals, which is actually a cartoon in form of confession. “ (Néret, G.,