Fruit Trees, 1901

Fruit Trees The artist, Gustav Klimt's art nouveau style in the painting Fruit Trees was conceived in 1901 and illustrates the calm countryside the artist was captured by. The oil on canvas piece was produced during Klimt's gold phase, however illustrates a prominent landscape engulfed in fruit trees as the focal point of the piece. The painting illustrates a rich landscape, with a prominent fruit tree catching the viewer's attention. The tree seems to resemble a green apple tree, a classic piece that Klimt spent an immense amount of time painting. The apple tree symbolized purity and life for the artist, a theme he loved to paint as he seeked the elements within his own life. Klimt experienced an array of sorrows, through the death of his own son at a young age, to the rapid death of his own brother and father that spring his sister and mother into a deep depression, continuing the agony to himself catching the syphilis disease at the time.  Date: 1901 Style: Art Nouveau (Modern)