Kirche In Cassone by Gustav Klimt Kamisaka Sekka The birds — plumes fanned

The birds — plumes fanned

a flat ground

The Equatorial Jungle

The sunset isn't depicted literally but suggested through color temperature alone

Henry Hu layers symbolic forms against a restrained ground

Kirche In Cassone by Gustav Klimt Kamisaka Sekka The birds — plumes fannedPainted during one of Klimt's summer retreats to the Italian lakes, this landscape of a church in Cassone on Lake Garda reveals a quieter dimension of the artist's vision. Unlike his ornate figure work, the composition here is almost minimalist the church facade viewed head on, surrounded by dense, shimmering foliage. The flat, mosaic like treatment of colour and surface anticipates his later decorative style while remaining grounded in observed