Three nouveau artists…
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Audrey: A fascinating grouping: Beardsley, Mucha and Klimt.
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Alison: Overlapping lives.
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Audrey: Although Beardsley died young aged 26, Klimt at 56 and Mucha at 79.
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Alison: So which picture impressed you the most?
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Audrey: Walking through the 3D room with all the faces and golden arrows and chains swirling about.
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Alison: Ah. Modernizing the nouveau? For me, I liked the life stories and minimalist approach to exhibiting their works. Stories behind the pictures. Like that stunning portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. And the framing of it.
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Voice-over
Some say that banker and sugar baron Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer believed that his wife and Klimt were having an affair and asked Klimt to paint her portrait thinking that this would dissipate their passion. Not all artists fall out of love with their subjects but it is said that this worked. Klimt worked on the portrait for four years 1903 to 1907 leaving a shimmering image called The Woman in Gold, later stolen by the Nazis and returned to the family in 2008.
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