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"The symbolism inherent in the Tarot is perfectly coherent with that symbolist cultural that also gave origin to Klimts artwork. The pictorial images of the Viennese artist are, in fact, full of hermeticism: his works seem to be depictions of a mystery and even more so an expression of emotions and drives." Gustav Klimt was an early twentieth-century Austrian artist who was known for the elegance, beauty and sensuality of his works. Klimt rejected tradition and the moralism of previous generations in his art, and is remembered because he succeeded in perfectly expressing the spirit of the bourgeois and aristocratic world of his time, transforming it into a dream-like universe of magnificence and decadence. He was also a Symbolist painter which seems very appropriate for the adaptation of his art into Tarot cards. Klimts art was influenced by diverse sources: medieval woodcuts by Durer, Japanese Ukiyoe paintings, Egyptian, Byzantine, Classical Greek and even Minoan influences. Photographical influences also seem apparent; the faces and often bodies have a photo-realistic quality in outline and expression. Klimts people are tall and spare, extremely elegant, and very pale. The
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