Gustav Klimt's art and its reflection on today

Gustav Klimt established an avant garde movement by gently criticizing the obsolete artistic and cultural ethic of femmes fatales. Especially, his designs show protest against the morals and ethics of that period. He painted the faces of women, nude and clothed, like an embroidery, revealing their hidden feelings. Klimt and the Art Nouveau movement were affected by Eastern art (plant and current forms and curled lines), specifically Japanese paintings, and for the other painters this became a source of inspiration.