![]() In that work there is a naked woman with a text of a poem of Schiller: “If you cannot please everyone with your actions and your art, you should satisfy a few. The challenge of the artists of the Secession (the rupture with the conservatism, the provocations against the “traditional taste”), is well exemplified in a work of Klimt: Nuda Veritas (The Naked truth) of 1899.There is a concept of “total work of art” (Gesamtkunstwerk) that talks about an art that sums the skills of the other arts. A Project to develop and promote a progressive, innovative art that combined traditional arts with design, decoration and architecture. The secession was a project of artistic renewal.Nevertheless, the movement is considered to have lasted specifically until 1905 (until that moment, if we look for formal characteristics that prevail in the movement, those are the characteristics of modernism or art nouveau). It is also a place that shows the work of its famous founding members. Trends started to “update”, and that is why there is no “Vienna Secession style.” Secession still exists and its famous building still works as an exhibition space for contemporary art. As years went by, artists, forms and concepts -what art expresses- change. The Secession was founded to promote innovation in contemporary art and not to promote the development of any style in particular.There is a rupture with the conservative tradition. The first president of this association of artists was Klimt and, as we can imagine, the word “Secession” implies a break. It started in 1897, and it is considered to be the entering of Austria into modernity (in art, obviously). It was part of a bigger movement: Modernism.We could make this publication thanks to small donations. Artistic Movements, Periods and Styles in 5 Points ![]()
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