Portrait of Emilie Floge Romanticism While the black square is

While the black square is a closed thing

and the effects of the atmosphere on a nature devoid of any human presence

The Black Circle is in an upward ascending movement

one of the most common landscapes in Japanese art

but it would be imprudent to think we know everything about them

Portrait of Emilie Floge Romanticism While the black square isA very great seducer, Gustav falls in love with his sister in law, Emilie Floge. She becomes his most frequently painted model and at the same time a secretly loved lover, to whom he never succumbed, preferring to place her in the ideal world. The strange bond that will unite them for more than twenty years makes Emilie "the eternal muse".