The mental images which we perceive are created in the brain, which has some fixed ideas about how to do that. They’re not the same as optical laws used in cameras and related devices.
Klimt
From the 1870s, Salome became the central figure in the story, and increasingly became the femme fatale: beautiful, sexy, and dangerous to know.
Every bit as radical as Cézanne, his paintings capture the countryside of a long lost era, with its horses and carts.
Portraits and more of mysterious beauty and fascination. No quick thrills, but haunting images.
The monumental mural painted by Larsson was intended to be his greatest painting. It turned out to be his most controversial.
