Gustav Klimt’s “Tree of Life”

Hello, ladies!

Hmmm…what interesting thing can I think to talk about to my two favourite non-adults today??  Did you notice the funny spelling on "favourite"?  That's because the company I work for is British – so my computer has a British spell checker, and sometimes it adds the letter "u" in places we American folks don't normally put them. This amuses me and makes me feel fancy.  However, it would not help you out any on your spelling homework, so don't spell like Auntie P! 

 

I'm going to send you another painting I really like – this is a picture of Gustav Klimt's "Tree of Life". He was born in 1862, in Austria, so lived around the same time as Vincent Van Gogh (the guy who painted "Starry Night", but they had very different painting styles.  Gustav used gold paint a lot of the time in his pictures, and a lot of little shapes – circles and squares and spirals.  I like that very much.

 

I don't like his paintings of people so much (which is actually what he mostly did – he tended to paint people's heads on funny angles that make me think their necks must hurt so I don't like to look at them.  His most famous painting is called "The Kiss" and it's a man and woman kissing – she's wearing a beautiful robe (kind of like the ones in this painting) but her head is definitely bent all wrong & it really bothers me), but this one is cool, because I love all the little swirls in the tree, and the crazy patterns in the clothes the people are wearing.  I also like the weird little things living in the tree.  I kind of think they look like hamburgers with eyes.  Someone told me once they were supposed to be butterflies, but I don't see it. 

 

The bird in the tree (the black shape near the middle) reminds me of something Egyptian because of the way it's eye is shaped.

 

Anyway, hope you are having a wonderful week - know that I love you both very much and think that you are awesome!

Hugs and kisses,

Auntie Paula