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my name is Janice Staggs I'm Director curatorial and manager of publications in a gallery in New York the Museum of German and Austrian art the painting that we'll be looking at today is Gustav Klimt portrait of Adele bloch-bauer one completed in 1907 it's painted in a lavishly ornamental fashion blending reality and fantasy in a single work the first glance the compositional structure appears complex but it's actually rather simple with careful study you almost have to focus your eyes for a moment to actually find the woman everything else is covered in gold or silver leaf or vivid colors of oil paint and in a riot of pattern Klimt incorporates pattern and a highly sophisticated manner to convey a sense of ornamental richness behind the sitter's head is almost a halo comprised of spirals and circles and on the left side there are rows of squares and they provide geometric contrast to t