Tuesday 3 July 2007













"Fulfilment" is a cartoon, painted ( mixed media on paper) for the most remarkable of all Klimt's murals. Klimt's architect colleague Josef Hoffman was given the oppurtunity to build and furnish the 40 room Palais Stoclet in Brussels. Many Viennese artists were involved but the piece de resistance was the dining room, for which Klimt designed three mosaics made of semi precious stones, enamels, mother of pearl, coral and other costly materials.
The 2 main mosaics were long friezes, including: Expectation, featuring a single female figure, but in Fulfilment, a couple embrased. In the cartoon for Fulfilmnt he used a variety of media to mimic the textures of the final work. Klimt remarked that the Stoclet Frieze was " probably the ultimate stage in my development of ornament" which almost completely covers the figures. The 3rd, small mosaic is the ultimate- a completely abstract panel.

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