To celebrate European Day of Languages 2019, Mearns Primary have decided to study various European artists. In P623, we can chosen the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.

We looked at the paintings “Portrait of Adel Boch Bauer” and “The Tree of Life” to discover the unique style of Klimt.

We conclude that Klimt’s paintings have the following in common

• use of bright colours
• use of metallic elements
• bright colours and
• geometry shapes and patterns.

With this information we created our own Klimt inspired artwork using Mary Queen of Scots and the Darnley Tree as our context.