Judith, After Klimt

I used to confuse the art of Klimt and Schiele, who were contemporaries in the early 1920's. In fact, for months this blog post was entitled "Judith, after Schiele." I've corrected it after receiving an email from a woman this morning who politely pointed out the error. It's funny (peculiar) that I used to confuse them, because I recently learned that Klimt and Schiele were friends, close enough to hang out together. An aside on art films: A couple weeks ago I rented the feature-length film called "Klimt," starring John Malkovich in the leading role. As much as I admire Klimt's art and Malkovich's acting, the movie sucked! I also rented a biography called Klimt and fell asleep. The next day I tried again and it was really a waste of time. Awful. In fact, most of the films and documentaries I've rented on artists have been terribly boring, except for the Sister Wendy series. I do like those DVD's. Her interpretations of old masters' pieces are eye-opening.