The organic art.
The founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897 marked the formal start of modern art in Austria, a nation known at the time for its adherence to a highly conservative tradition. It was the coalescence of the first wave of artists and designers committed to a forward-thinking, internationalist vision of the art world, all-encompassing in its acceptance and incorporation of styles and sectors, and-highly idealistically-free from the dictates of traditional ideals or dominant market preferences. (MyLMS, 2019).
Led by Gustav Klimt at the outset, the Secessionists gave the city's first dedicated venue for contemporary art. It, in combination with their official journal Ver Sacrum, not only exposed their work to the Austrian capital, but also to the worldwide trends of contemporary and historical art. (MyLMS, 2019).
The work of the Secessionists offers the visual representations of Vienna's latest intellectual and cultural flowering around 1900 in fields as varied as medicine, art and philosophy. Nevertheless, for a short time, internal divisions and problems arising from the commercial side of the work of the Secessionists ultimately broke the group's dominance on the contemporary and decorative arts scene. Nevertheless, the Secession remains a vital outlet for promoting and debating contemporary art in Austria even today. (The Art Story, 2019).
Description of the artwork & Analysis: Vienna's Secession Building is the physical and spiritual home and permanent visual element of the movement. (The Art Story, 2019).
The house, situated in a culturally vibrant area of Vienna, was designed by Josef Maria Olbrich, a young architect and former student of Otto Wagner, and needed to hold its own against many larger institutional structures. (The Art Story, 2019).
It's somewhat unorthodox appearance prompted critics to call it "Mahdi's Tomb" or "Assyrian Convenience," but its location on a vegetable market's former site also contributed to the nickname "The Golden Cabbage" for the leaves lattice in the dome. The leaves look much like the stylized foliage crown at the top of a tree that seems to reach through the building's roof as shown by their newspaper Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring), whose name appears to the left of the entrance and refers to the ancient Roman practices of founding old societies. (The Art Story, 2019).
The Vienna Secession is identified with shapes that are very organic depicted with nature. Here is an example on how I see the Vienna Secession in modern times. Everything in this artwork is nature and has organic shapes in it.
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The Art Story. (2019). The Vienna Secession Movement Overview. [online] Available at: https://www.theartstory.org/movement/vienna-secession/ [Accessed 13 Aug. 2019].
