Gustaf Klimt's "Tree of Life"

We we're inspired by Gustaf Klimt's "Tree of Life" for this week's art lesson. Gustaf Klimt was an Austrian painter and illustrator in the Art Nouveau style. Klimt found school very difficult and did not consider himself a good reader or writer:

"I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word...whoever wants to know something about me ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do."
Gustav Klimt 

The Tree of Life represents wisdom, protection, strength, and beauty. It reaches up into the sky and down into the earth. It links Heaven and Earth.