Burdened landscapes and golden skies

If you mix Klimt, Van Gogh, and Hieronymus Bosch, do you get Kiefer? Of course, there’s more to an artist than the sum of those who may have inspired him, but it was interesting to see reflections of these great masters transpire in some of his works. The applied gold is perhaps the most obvious, together with the patches of reed and straw swirling through a teal sky. I thought the dark blacks were reminiscent of the third part of Bosch’s triptych as well.