Farmhouse in Upper Austria by Gustav Klimt Maira Ribena aged sepia tones that speak

aged sepia tones that speak directly to the 19th-century archive

Working in the spirit of 19th-century zoological illustration

the composition uses minimal mark-making to hold an entire emotional register

Costa orchestrates form

as much as from a distance

Farmhouse in Upper Austria by Gustav Klimt Maira Ribena aged sepia tones that speakFarmhouse in Upper Austria belongs to the series of summer landscapes Klimt painted away from Vienna quiet, frontal, almost meditative. The farmhouse sits flush with the picture plane, surrounded by a dense pattern of foliage that dissolves architecture into nature. There is no drama, no narrative: only the steady, absorbing attention of a painter finding freedom in the rural and the ordinary, rendered in his signature mosaic like touch. As a canvas