Was Klimt's Secessionist Movement against the poor being able to appreciate their work?

Question

One book says that the Vienna Secession was an elitest movement who only wanted to please the people rich enough and educated enough to understand their artwork, but another book says that the Movement's aims were 'to make no distinctions between 'great art' and the 'lesser arts', between 'art for the rich and art for the poor''.

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Answer 1

hey lucie...... both are right... by 1905 there was a split in the movement... on one side.. in vienna... klimt supporters wanted to establish links between art and commerce.... inviting the viewer to interperate their work on a more sophisticated level.......... on the other... the naturalists who wanted their worked viewed with more primacy.......... less sophistication..........  theres more... check it out...