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...floor, as well as those that are far more surprising. There are too many great works to talk about in one room, let alone three floors. There’s the Byzantine stone and glass mosaic on the fourth floor that recalls the short, bright strokes of color in Klimt??s “Pear Tree” on the first, as well as Josiah Wedgwood’s 18th century English reproduction of the Portland Vase which is not only reminiscent of Greek red and black figure pottery, but also appears in William Michael Harnett?...
Reproductions of Gustav Klimt??s “Pear Tree”—often referred to as the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s one great painting—flap on the banners outside of the Fogg, attempting to lure visitors into the Busch-Reisinger’s unique exhibit, “‘As though my body were naught but ciphers:’ Crises of Representation in Fin-de Siècle Vienna.” The exhibit’s forty pieces are on display in a single room...
Another subtle but intriguing text-cum-visual art trick is the parallel placement of Klimt??s “Pear Tree” and a decorated, meter-long text box featuring another Hofmannsthal quote designed to emphasize the importance of images and words and how they interact with each other...
...original, one of Klimt??s infamous “faculty paintings” scorned by the very faculty that commissioned them, was destroyed in 1945 by retreating Nazis to keep it from falling into enemy hands. A digitized photograph of the original mural from the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna is the source of the Busch-Reisinger’s photo mural. The reproduction, about the same size as Klimt??s original, is a unique approximation of Klimt??s vision of grandeur...
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